Welcome to The E-Sylum: Volume 2, Number 26: June 27, 1999: an electronic publication of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society. SUBSCRIBER UPDATES This week's new subscribers are Dave Harper, Andrew Pollock, and Paul Bate. Welcome aboard! COIN WORLD PROFILE Subscriber William T.Gibbs, News Editor for Coin World, published a nice article on The E-Sylum in the July 5, 1999 issue, which hit the streets this week (page 88). To quote the first few paragraphs: "It might seem unusual that an organization of collectors who love the feel and smell of old books would sponsor a weekly online journal, but is not at all out of the ordinary for the Numismatic Bibliomania Society. NBS does embrace the traditional publishing field. It publishes The Asylum, a traditional magazine featuring articles on numismatic books, auction catalogs and other forms of numismatic literature. However it also embraces the World Wide Web and the Internet by publishing a weekly online journal, The E-Sylum. Online subscribers subscribe to The E-Sylum, which arrives weekly (every Sunday) in their e-mail. Each online issue features research tips, requests for research help, comments from subscribers and other useful information." As examples of The E-Sylum's content and usefulness, the article mentions David Cassel's pattern request, Russ Logan's assistance in finding the book on Patriotic Civil War envelopes for Pete Smith, and finally, our discussion on John Leonard Riddell. "the help provided from the request May 2 has proven invaluable in researching the feature which will be published later this year in Coin World. The immediacy of the Internet and World Wide Web appears to be one of the strongest benefits of this online journal. Members can communicate with each other instantaneously via e-mail." Finally, the article lists the address of our web site and that of Dave Hirt, our Secretary-Treasurer. Thanks to Mr. Gibbs and Coin World, we've gotten some marvelous publicity. Let's hope the article attracts some more good subscribers. OTHER COIN WORLD ITEMS OF NOTE The same issue of Coin World holds other items of interest to numismatic bibliophiles. Stuart Segan has an article on p50 devoted to the auction catalogs of 19th century coin dealer William Elliot Woodward. Page 79 holds a full-page buy ad from Stack's and John J. Ford, Jr. The headline reads "Wanted: Western Americana" Coming on the heels of the controversy over the Buttrey article, the ad is sure to set some tongues wagging. The ad is similar to the flyers Ford printed in the 1960's to buy western gold and silver bars. PATTERN COLLECTOR'S CLUB David Cassel writes: "I invite your general membership to join our U.S. Pattern club. We have no dues. Your bibliophiles may be able to give good assistance in our pattern research or they may help in other ways. Ask your members to make themselves known to us by going to our web site http://st9.yahoo.net/uspatterns/ and sign up. One day we will have a hyper link to The E-Sylum as well as other sites. We have large plans." FUNCTION ASSOCIATES SALE Numismatic literature from the library of the late Grover Criswell is offered in the next Function Associates mail bid sale, closing August 6th. For more information, or a copy of the catalog, e-mail fredlake@aol.com. PROMOTING NBS ON EBAY Larry Mitchell writes: "To fund my return to grad school, I've been slowly but surely selling off non-essential parts of my numislit library on EBay. This has been going on for a little over 4 months. Every bidder who bids on an item of mine receives the attached message. I've been keeping count, and 9 persons who received this message are now E-Sylum subscribers (there may have been some that I missed). Might work for other NBS members auctioning items on similar services...." The message reads, in part: "If you have an especial interest in numismatic literature, you might find the following sites of particular interest: http://www.coinbooks.org http://NumisLit.listbot.com" The second reference is a moderated email list Larry runs for general discussions of numismatic literature topics. The list is independent of NBS, and intended as a free-form discussion list, unlike The E-Sylum, which is an edited publication. FEATURED WEB SITE This week's featured site is Coins from Famous People in History: "Ever wonder what a coin looked like that was issued by Julius Caesar? How about a coin from Napoleon? Or Cleopatra? Or Genghis Khan?" http://members.aol.com/dkaplan888/main.html Wayne Homren Numismatic Bibliomania Society The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. For more information please see our web site at http://www.coinbooks.org/ There is a membership application available on the web site. To join, print the application and return it with your check to the address printed on the application. For those without web access, contact Dave Hirt, NBS Secretary-Treasurer, 5911 Quinn Orchard Road, Frederick, MD 21701 (To be removed from this mailing list write to me at whomren@coinlibrary.com)
