This company held 36 auction sales of medals and tokens from 1978 to 1991. The first 27 were conducted under the name "Johnson & Jensen," and the final nine under "Collectors' Auctions, Ltd." Newman Portal acknowledges firm principal D. Wayne Johnson for making this material available. These ...
Read more...Kagin's auctions, representing one of the most extensive auction series in American numismatics, has been posted to NNP under the Auction section. Numbering almost 300 catalogs, Kagin's first auction was in 1940, and the series has been recently revived with the Spring 2017 ANA convention sale. N...
Read more...While many archival documents from the U.S. Mint reside in the National Archives, there are also discoveries to be made in institutional and private collections. Craig Sholley recently scanned and shared with Newman Portal a 19th century Mint document from the Fred Weinberg library. “Simple Order...
Read more...Freeman Hunt’s Merchant’s Magazine and Commercial Review (1839-1870) was an important source of American economic, banking, and trade news in the mid-19th century. Numismatic tidbits are scattered about and are best found through text search. Users can search specifically within this periodical t...
Read more...The National Gazette was a Philadelphia newspaper published by Philip Freneau from October 1791 to October 1793. Highly political, the Gazette was firmly in the Republican camp, opposing the Federalist policies of Hamilton and others. Freneau was enticed to move to Philadelphia through Secretary ...
Read more...The position of the Newman Numismatic Portal at Washington University in St. Louis gives us access to the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), a group of over one thousand libraries with the mission to make access to federal documents more accessible to the general public. This includes Min...
Read more...Following the sale of Bowers & Merena Galleries to Collectors Universe in 2000, several of the old Bowers & Merena firm came together to create American Numismatic Rarities (ANR), which began presenting auction sales in 2003. The firm conducted 25 sales between 2003 and 2006 and then merg...
Read more...Our Encyclopedia section now features updated auction prices realized that are dynamically maintained. Results from the largest U.S. auction houses are included. Users may drill down through the U.S. coin series, starting from https://nnp.wustl.edu/encyclopedia/catalog?catalogId=1.
Read more...A group of approximately 2000 pages of material has been added to the National Archives section, https://nnp.wustl.edu/Library/Archives?searchLetter=U. This material was scanned at the Fort Worth National Archives facility and includes record groups related to New Orleans Mint activities, c. 1850...
Read more...The John Reich Journal, published by the John Reich Collectors Society (JRCS), is now accessible on the Newman Portal for the years 1986-2014. Launched by David Davis in 1986, the Journal focuses on early United silver (and to a lesser extent gold) coinage bearing the Flowing Hair, Draped Bust, a...
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