The Newman Portal has recently digitized The Love Letter, published by the Love Token Society. Issues from 1972 to 2011 can be found under “periodicals” in the library section of the Newman Portal. “Love tokens” are artistically altered coins and were especially popular in the 19th century. With...
Read more...The latest addition to the Newman Portal is David Schwager’s Sample Slab Update Newsletter #25. The collecting of slab variants is surprisingly robust, and this publication documents a rare PCGS example which recently traded at over $1,000 (illustrated here). The “plastic tomb” has revolutionized...
Read more...This week a Newman Portal user searched for the term “Washington Grate cent.” Having never heard of such a thing, I thought perhaps “grate” was a typo for “great.” Not the case, and we quickly learn from the 1977 ANA auction sale catalog (lot 58) that this piece is classified as “Baker 92a” in t...
Read more...One of the longest running club publications in American numismatics, the Chicago Coin Club (CCC) Chatter, has been digitized and added to the Newman Numismatic Portal. The Chicago Coin Club was the first member club of the ANA, designated “branch number 1” in 1912. The CCC Chatter contains many ...
Read more...This week a Newman Portal user searched for “Tristram Coffin.” Was this a trade token for a 19th century undertaker? No, and that would be a bad guess. An appearance in the Stack’s Bowers March, 2016 Baltimore sale identifies the Tristram Coffin medal as Betts-533, and from there Betts’ America...
Read more...The Central Ohio Numismatic Association (CONA) has contributed its newsletters (2011-date) and presentation materials to Newman Portal. Apropos of tax day, Gerald Tebben recently presented at a CONA meeting on “Coins, Tokens, Checks, and 1913,” and this slide deck is now available on Newman Porta...
Read more...This week a Newman Portal user searched on “Harding Inaugural Medal.” This is one of the rarest pieces in the inaugural series. Neil MacNeil’s The President’s Medal (1977) records a census of two or possibly three in gold, four in silver, and “possibly less than 60” bronze pieces. Newman Portal...
Read more...In 1939, Eric P. Newman began negotiations with the Chase National Bank in New York to purchase the numismatic collection held by the Col. E. H. R. Green estate. Newman and St. Louis dealer Burdette G. Johnson made piecemeal purchases over time, which Johnson sold on behalf of the partnership. Th...
Read more...This week a Newman Portal user searched for “Forrer.” One of the most commonly consulted sources on the Newman Numismatic Portal is Leonard Forrer’s Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, a massive 8-volume set containing capsule summaries of engravers and coiners. Although all of these volumes ...
Read more...This week a Newman Portal user searched for the 1902 U.S. Mint Report. The Newman Portal has an extensive set of annual reports of the Director of the Mint, courtesy of several contributors including Dan Hamelberg, Bill Burd, and Paul Hybert. The report for 1902 is one of the more prized in the s...
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