As we’re coming out of Thanksgiving weekend and all of its associated days, we now find ourselves at Cyber Monday—and what would Cyber Monday be without an online discount? Here at Numismagram, we are happy to announce a 15% sale across all items (except the 12 in this new upload). In order to take advantage of these savings, just enter the coupon code CYBERMONDAY2024 in the coupon code window upon checkout, and the 15% savings will be applied to the applicable items from their current prices. This coupon code will remain active for the entire week, running through this Friday. If you’ve had your eye on something in our inventory, now is a great time to take advantage of these savings! A few weeks back, my wife and I were able to explore the Tamara de Lempicka exhibit at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. A longtime favorite of mine, de Lempicka was a pillar in the world of Art Deco and towered as a prominent female artist in a field oft-dominated by men. One of her most famous works, Young Lady with Gloves (1929), is period-defining, and perfectly captures her use of shapes, colors, gradients, and flair…

We’re back with our mid-November upload of art and historical medals, with Thanksgiving now less than two weeks away. Speaking of Thanksgiving, there is one medal in this grouping that hopefully won’t be the way in which you feel following way too much food on the holiday. Keep a look out, but it should be fairly clear what medal this is. And now, on to the highlights for this upload!

Now that we're past Halloween and into November, we're back with another upload of art and historical medals. We'll be returning to the usual twice-per-month format going forward, as the once-per-week format for last month has seemingly caused some issues with spam folders and undelivered messages. If you're reading this, that wasn't the case for you, but do be mindful of future messages from us that may end up in spam unintentionally, and whitelist this email address in order to ensure that you continue to see our updates. As always, if you wish to no longer receive these messages, just let us know and we will remove you from the list. And now, on to some of this upload's highlights!

We've arrived at our final spooky installment for the month, with Halloween now just a little over a week away. So, let's dive—or even danse macabre—our way right into this week's group...

We're getting that much closer to Halloween, and of course that means that our offerings of spooky exonumia are continuing. What is also likely continuing is seeing more and more yards transformed by various haunting decorations. Some of the most striking imagery, however, tends to be that which hides in plain sight. While on a walk last evening, something that fits that very description was spotted, as can be seen in the image above. No, that's not photoshopped—that's just a spider hanging out in the center of its rather massive web, with most parts of the web seemingly invisibly affixed to the road sign and the rest attached to a bush that it out of the shot. In this close-up below, one can make out the few things caught in its otherwise undetected web...

It’s that time of the year again—when pumpkins begin to populate every grocery store and bulk candy becomes a target for stocking. Throughout the month, haunting imagery like the mural above will descend upon houses and yards all around, with the month culminating in various costume-clad gatherings both child and adult. Though, those with adults will likely feature less candy and more beverages. The pic above falls into that theme, as I snapped it at Ghost Town Brewing in Oakland earlier in September. A local favorite, their art always screams this time of the year. As for this upload, we’re doing something a little different. Rather than our usual every-other-week upload with 12 items each, we’re instead doing at least four uploads (and maybe five), on each Tuesday of October, though with just six (or maybe a few more) items in each. This will allow us to check in more frequently with items that tend to be among our most popular of the year. We're only trying this approach for October, though, and then returning to a twice-per-month basis as usual. That being said, we did receive one spam complaint last newsletter, so if you do not want to be receiving these messages, please let us know and you will be removed. Here are this upload's new items:

It is now post Labor Day, which means that, since our last upload of new items, we’ve passed what my wife and I like to view as our "anniversary period." Given that the second half of August contains both our wedding anniversary as well as anniversaries for our first few dates, it’s always a special time of the year. We celebrated our wedding anniversary this past 18th with some drinks and dinner in town. The pic above was from the first round of the festivities, with the evening ending with some Burmese food in a cozy environment...

While school hasn’t begun everywhere (like where I grew up, with school beginning right after Labor Day), it is beginning here and at some colleges, so this upload features a few references that may remind you of your time in school, and especially physics and chemistry class, like this Alfred Nobel commemorative medal from the Paris mint…

We're back with our next grouping of medals as we cross into August. This newsletter is a bit briefer than usual, so we'll dive right into some of the highlights...