NNP Blog

4 DECEMBER 2021

19th Century Coin Chart Manuals

Prior to the ubiquitous federal currency of today, the 19th century saw a host of paper money issued by banks across the land. Today, many collectors acquire obsolete bank notes on a state-by-state basis, with Whitman’s Encyclopedia of Obsolete Paper Money (seven volumes published and counting) l...

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4 DECEMBER 2021

Stack's Catalogs on NNP

The Stack's catalogs for the period 1960-1974 are now posted. We are feverishly working on the remainder! The Stack's series covers over 700 sales from 1935 to date and includes reference catalogs representing any number of specialty areas in American numismatics. See more at: https://nnp.wustl.e...

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4 DECEMBER 2021

Virgil Brand Ledgers at ANS Scanned by Newman Numismatic Portal

One of the most frequently consulted references at the ANS Library is the massive inventory record of the Virgil Brand collection. Brand, a Chicago beer magnate, was an active collector at the turn of the 20th century, and these ledgers detail over 100,000 items purchased between 1889 and 1925. B...

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4 DECEMBER 2021

R. W. Julian Scans Mint Records at U.S. National Archives

Operating under a grant from the Central States Numismatic Society, researcher R. W. Julian has directed the scanning of over 39,000 pages of material from the U.S. National Archives & Records Administration (NARA). The Mint material is primarily in record group 104, and this record group is ...

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4 DECEMBER 2021

Newman Portal Posts Manuscripts on Connecticut Coinage

Through the generosity of researchers Randy Clark and Jay Knipe, and with permission of the New Haven Museum, two manuscripts related to Connecticut coinage, from the Whitney Library, have been posted in our Archive section under New Haven Museum.

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4 DECEMBER 2021

Newman Portal Releases Newman Money Museum Videos

For those who have not had the opportunity to visit the Newman Money Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, a 12-minute overview video is now available on the Newman Portal. Brief remarks from Eric P. Newman are interspersed throughout and provide Eric’s rationale and thinking behind the m...

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