We have added the E-Gobrecht, the monthly e-newsletter of the Liberty Seated Collectors Club. Edited by Bill Bugert since its inception in 2005, the E-Gobrecht combines research articles, club news, and regular columnists holding forth on a variety of subjects.
Read more...Scanning continues in the Rare Book Room of the American Numismatic Society library, and we have added a group of 38 auction sale catalogs from Bangs, the 19th century auction house.
Read more...The Centinel, published by the Central States Numismatic Society, is currently in the scanning queue. There are over 200 issues in this group, and, as of today, those up to 1970 are posted in our library under "periodicals."
Read more...B. Max Mehl, the colorful Texas dealer, published Mehl's Numismatic Monthly from 1908-1919. These are now available on the Portal in the periodical section of the library. Mehl's Monthly is quite similar to The Numismatist for the same period, featuring club and society news, coins for sale, and ...
Read more...We have added a dictionary section under the library portion of the site. This dictionary has over 4,600 entries extracted from Frey's dictionary (originally published in the American Journal of Numismatics, vol. 50), as well as entries from the glossary of Breen's Encyclopedia. The source is n...
Read more...Thomas Elder, one of the most prolific catalogers, held forth in the auction business from 1903 to 1940. We have posted a nice selection, including all of the Elder catalogs with plates. Dan Hamelberg generously loaned this material for scanning.
Read more...We have installed several hundred 19th century auction catalogs on NNP, which have been scanned either in St. Louis (from the Hamelberg collection), or in New York at the American Numismatic Society. The set of Woodwards is near complete with only eight missing, while the Chapmans (both Samuel an...
Read more...Edward Cogan, the "father of American coin collecting," was active in the auction business from 1858 to 1879. John Adams (United States Numismatic Literature, Vol. 1) recorded 70 sales for Cogan. About half of these have been scanned at the ANS and are now available on NNP under Library / Auctio...
Read more...The name of the associated Mint Director has been added to the cataloging description for all Mint Reports. Also, Mint Reports are now categorized by year covered rather than year published (in some cases, the report for a specific year was not published until the following year).
Read more...The first six volumes of the Numismatist (1888-1893) have been scanned and added. These first six volumes are a perennial favorite among the numismatic bibliophiles, so much so that even the reprint edition (Olympic Press, 1963) is a prized item. This particular copy, from the Eric P. Newman lib...
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