ASYLUM SPRING 2024 ISSUE PUBLISHED

Welcome to The Asylum's Spring 2024 edition.

In this issue:

• My 1981 Bicentennial Bookstore Blow-out
  By Joel J. Orosz
• On a Quasi Coin Reported Found in a Boring in Illinois by William E. Dubois
  By Thomas D. Harrison
• The Kentucky Token and the Pyramid of the Fifteen American States
  By Julia H. Casey
• The Great Numismatic Library Conflagration and Other Perils Averted
  By George F. Kolbe
• Betts Library Siblings Reunited By Jeff Dickerson NBS Quiz
  By David F. Fanning
• More about Ard Browning
  By Pete Smith
• The Short Life of the Whitman Numismatic Journal
  By Mike Costanzo
• Released at Border: New Book about Borderland Numismatics
  By Jason Elwell
• BiblioFiles: Justin Hinh, The Dansco Dude

Message from NBS President Len Augsburger

Greeting to all NBSers, and welcome to the current issue of The Asylum, which you now have in your hands. This quarter we welcome the ever-resourceful Julia H. Casey, who joins the ranks of Asylum authors with her first contribution. Julia is an expert at extricating numismatic information from the Internet, which has its own way of hiding needles in haystacks. Search capabilities improve over time, but there remains an art to thinking like a computer, and Julia is clearly advanced in such knowledge.

Planning for the summer ANA convention in Rosemont, IL is underway, with a visit to the Dan Hamelberg library in Champaign, Illinois targeted for Saturday, August 10, 2024. Further details will be announced in the E-Sylum as we get closer.

Q. David Bowers, one of my favorite numismatic writers, was fond of imagining an overstuffed chair, surrounded by piles of unread numismatic books, and accompanied by several hours of leisure time. Here's hoping this installment of The Asylum represents a springboard to such an experience, and I will see you again next issue.

New NBS mailing address

With a new treasurer comes a new mailing address! Please use the mailing address for membership or other mailed correspondence.

NBS c/o Jeff Dickerson
P.O. Box 578
Weatherford, TX 76086

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