Correspondence, drawings, published clips and memoranda related to collars, feeders, and ejection mechanisms  that might have been operative in the early U.S. Mint. Correspondence ranges from 1997 to 2004 and includes correspondents R. W. Julian, Craig Sholley, Peter Gaspar, and John Dannreuther. The file concludes with the beginnings of a handwritten manuscript on the subject, possibly in preparation for an article. The precise order of these handwritten pages is unclear.

A number of published clips in the file are not scanned:

John Hebron Moore, “A View of Philadelphia in 1829” (Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, July 1954).

U.S Mint and Coinage (Taxay, 1966), p. 174

“Early United States Copper Coinage: The English Connection” (Doty, British Numismatic Journal, 1987)

Breen’s Encyclopedia (1988), pp. 305, 524, 697-698, 705

“The First Steam Press Coinage” (Craig Sholley, in Penny-Wise, November 1998)

“Some Comments on Early Steam Press Coinage” (Craig Sholley, in Gobrecht Journal, November 1998).

“The Early U.S. Coining Dies in the ANS Collection” (Craig Sholley, in America’s Large Cent, 1998, COAC #12)

Correspondence and clips related to Newman’s presentation at the Early American Coppers convention held in St. Louis, MO in 1992. Published clips, not scanned here, include:

George Frederick Ansell, The Royal Mint (1871), pp. 59-60 plus illustration.

R. W. Julian, “The Beginning of Coinage”, Numismatic Scrapbook Magazine (May 1963, pp. 1359-1364).

Don Taxay, The U.S. Mint and Coinage (pp. 96, 98, 169).

Breen’s Encyclopedia, p. 705.

The Colonial Newsletter (April 1982, p. 773, July 1982, pp. 781-785, July 1992, pp. 1304-1305).

Alan Herbert, “U.S. Mint operations slowly modernized,” Numismatic News (March 24, 1992, p. 24).

Penny-Wise, 1/15/1992, p. 36, 5/15/1992, pp. 206-207.

Denis Cooper, The Art and Craft of Coinmaking (Spink & Son, 1988), pp. 54, 131-134, 146, 188-189.

Correspondence with Leroy Van Allen, including drawings and extensive published clips. Most of this material is in-copyright, please contact NNPCurator@wustl.edu for access. Clips included are:

The Errorgram, Vol. 14, nos. 29-45 (5/18/1978 to 9/7/1978), containing articles by Leroy Van Allen on coining technology.

Leroy Van Allen, “Malfunctioning feed fingers cause of errors” (Coin World, 10/8/1986).

R. W. Julian, “Steam technology delayed 1836 half dollars” (Numismatic News, 3/9/1999).

Victoria Stone, “Close call : Close collars eliminated some edge devices…” (Coin World, 3/8/1999).

Michael Hodder, “Is it a Proof? Line between Proof, prooflikes blurry before 1828 close collar use” (Coin World, 9/28/1992).

Breen’s Encyclopedia, pp. 305, 698. 703, 705.