The NNP Encyclopedia (https://nnp.wustl.edu/encyclopedia/catalog?catalogId=1) supplies overviews, values, and auction prices realized for U.S. coins. Auctions prices realized, in particular, are quite useful for evaluating thinly traded issues. Auction results further reflect actual market trades...
Read more...The Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society (EPNNES) announces its second set of Newman Grants, created to financially assist numismatic authors and organizations pursuing original research in American numismatics. Newman Grants are awarded annually on the late Eric P. Newman’s birthday and a...
Read more...The “collector bug” launches most numismatists, but for many, commercial concerns quickly overwhelm other considerations. It is thus refreshing when an important collection of little monetary value emerges – a reminder that we need not be slaves to price guides and ever-finer technical grades. Br...
Read more...In the 1980s, Martin Gengerke’s and John Adams’ guides to numismatic auction sale catalogs created order from the chaos, providing easy to use references that finally revealed, in one place, what existed and what did not. The Gengerke guide covered a massive 18,000 catalogs, while Adams concentra...
Read more...The reference set of Numismatic News numbers about 2,000 issues, and is held by the Iola (WI) Historical Society. This material, with the kind assistance of George Cuhaj and Cliff Mishler, was shipped to Washington University in St. Louis just prior to the CV-19 closures. We were able to scan abo...
Read more...Fixed price lists (FPLs) are definition ephemeral, intending to quickly move inventory before moving on to the next edition. Few are saved unless containing useful articles or presenting specialized collections. This week Q. David Bowers asked about a Stack’s FPL from 1940, and, while not immedia...
Read more...The early U.S. Mint in Philadelphia suffered from yellow fever throughout the 1790s. The toll in Philadelphia was extraordinary, with the fever claiming 10% of its population in 1793 alone. Such numbers are in some way beyond our comprehension today, and, unless one has actually lived through it,...
Read more...Recently added to Newman Portal is Richard Lussier’s massive compendium detailing Austro-Hungarian orders, medals, and decorations. The work is divided into multiple volumes, beginning with awards and proceeding through decorations, medals, and semi-official issues. Lussier further dedicates a vo...
Read more...Recently added to NNP is a group of videos produced by David Lisot, covering four major shows from early 2020 (FUN, New York International, Spring ANA, and Long Beach). The New York International featured a presentation by Andrew E. Absil of Schulman b.v. Amsterdam on the subject of Van Loon meda...
Read more...Dr. Jay Galst, New York numismatist, passed away from COVID-19 on Saturday, April 11. A longtime member and past president of the New York Numsimatic Club, Galst authored Ophthalmologia Optica et Visio in Nummis (American Numismatic Society, 2013), which cataloged over 1,700 numismatic objects re...
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