Vintage issues of the Coin Dealer Newsletter, popularly known as the “Greysheet,” are now available on the Newman Portal. Initially titled the National Coin Brokers Bulletin, the publication offered a summary of teletype pricing data as well as commentary on various aspects of the coin market. Fo...
Read more...This week a user searched the Newman Portal for “George Seavey.” Seavey was a 19th Massachusetts collector of whom little is known, although David Stone demonstrated in 2009 that he was a public figure who was open with his collection. Pete Smith’s American Numismatic Biographies adds that he was...
Read more...The Newman Numismatic Portal (NewmanPortal.org), an online repository for American numismatic research, has concluded an agreement with David Lisot that will make available the extensive archive of the David Lisot Numismatic Video Library dating back to the 1980s. David Lisot, current CoinTelevis...
Read more...The term “Huston” was entered in the Newman Portal this week, and it’s not a typo for “Houston.” Huston refers to James N. Huston, U.S. Treasurer from 1889-1891. Huston (1849-1927) was a prominent businessman and politician from Indiana who was ultimately convicted of mail fraud in connection wit...
Read more...A user this week searched for “101 Ranch.” The October 1969 issue of Bunyan’s Chips, journal of the International Order of Wooden Money Collectors, identified a set of wooden nickels featuring the “101 Ranch Rodeo” and commemorating the 75th anniversary of Ponca City, OK. Elsewhere, in the 1981 ...
Read more...A Newman Portal user searched this week for “Washington New Jersey.” The Newman Portal identifies an article on the subject by John Griffee in the September 1996 issue of Penny-Wise. The “Washington New Jersey” refers to the Maris 4-C New Jersey state copper, likely struck in 1785 or 1786. The v...
Read more...The Newman Numismatic Portal has followed Eric Newman’s lead down the back roads of numismatics. Banking history, obscure auction houses, letters written to numismatists now shrouded by the fog of obscurity: it all finds equal footing here with the classic periodicals, catalogues, and reference w...
Read more...A Newman Portal user this week entered the date “July 12, 1709” into the NNP search. As happens weekly, the search stumps me – I might have done better if they entered “1909-S V.D.B.” instead. It turns out this refers to the inaugural appearance of Connecticut paper money (more precisely a bill o...
Read more...Several weeks ago a Newman Portal user expressed surprise that the ANS Centennial History (1958) was not found on NNP. With the kind permission of the ANS, this volume is now available. The work was published by ANS as a commemoration of its 100-year anniversary and contained papers on a wide ran...
Read more...A Newman Portal user searched this week for “Terlecki.” No matter how smart you think you are, looking at a few recent searches will never fail to humble you – it’s all numismatic, and it’s all words and terms and stories you have never heard of before. A search on Terlecki reveals, from The She...
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