Bill Bugert's A Register of Liberty Seated Half Dollar Varieties has been released to the Newman Portal. This ongoing series (with five volumes published to date) documents each individual die marriage in the Seated half dollar series (1839-1891). San Francisco coins were covered in volume 1, Car...
Read more...The New Netherlands coin company archives, in the collection of the American Numismatic Society, are being processed. The first group, covering auction sales #11-#17 (1943-1944) are posted at https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/archivedetail/518267. These contain buyers names for each sale along with ...
Read more...The Merchant postcard collection, over one thousand pieces, has been added to NNP at https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/archivedetail/517956. This collection focuses on Mint facilities through the world.
Read more...One million pages: The Newman Numismatic Portal (NNP) has reached a milestone of one million scanned pages, representing over 13,000 documents. The million mark was exceeded in March 2017 during the scanning of the extensive run of Stack's Bowers auction sa...
Read more...Many collectors today will be surprised to learn that 19th century American numismatists generally paid little attention to mint marks. The typical collectors put together date runs, often proofs, and an 1873 proof Seated dollar was just as good as an uncirculated example of the same year from t...
Read more...The catalog of the Philip M. Showers Collection of United States Half Cents (Stack’s, 1969) is one of the most prized items of modern United States numismatic literature. Placed privately en bloc by Stack’s in 1969 with Willis H. duPont, the collection represented nearly every half cent variety, ...
Read more...The Garrett collection was largely formed around the turn of the 20th century and featured in a series of blockbuster sales by Bowers & Ruddy from 1979 to 1981. The family preserved many records related to the collection, and these in time came to the American Numismatic Society in New York. ...
Read more...The David Sklow collection of Philadelphia Mint postcards is posted in our Archive section at https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/526626. This collection contains over 100 different postcards depicting the first through fourth Philadelphia Mints. The heydey of card production was clearly in the ea...
Read more...Hans M. F. Schulman (son of Maurits, grandson of Jacques) was born in Holland in 1913 to a long line of coin dealers. He came to New York in 1939, apprenticed with Wayte Raymond, and soon went into business on his own. With a total of over 100 sales from 1940 to 1975, Schulman focused on world nu...
Read more...Stack's auction sale catalogs are posted through 1987. This is an extensive group, numbering over 700 titles beginning in 1935. Complete sets are rare, and it is challenging even to borrow all the catalogs for scanning purposes. The Newman library contains several hundred, and we will be checking...
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