NUMISMATIST WILLIAM BENTLEY AND ALLEGHENY COLLEGE Öffentlichkeit Deposited

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  • The E-Sylum: Volume 10, Number 29, July 22, 2007, Article 10

    NUMISMATIST WILLIAM BENTLEY AND ALLEGHENY COLLEGE

    Regarding last week's item about the runaway wrecking ball, Katie
    Jaeger writes: "I'm proud to say I am a graduate of Allegheny College,
    where the wrecking ball decided to take leave of its cable. I heard
    the people in the car in the AP photo were spared more grievous
    injury because they'd carried a trunkful of soccer balls.

    "A small correction; they weren't knocking down the old library (or
    if it is old, then I am REALLY old). They were making room to add
    onto the new one; new in 1979, that is, my senior year. It had been
    under construction for the first three years I attended.

    "Allegheny was founded in 1815. William Bentley, one of the earliest
    U.S. coin collectors, was a benefactor. He willed half his library
    to Allegheny and the other half to the American Antiquarian Society;
    a description of his book collection is at the Allegheny website,
    the link being esylum_v10n28a15.html "

    [William Bentley's name has come up before in The E-Sylum, as
    apparently the very first coin dealer in the U.S. His main customer
    was Judge James Winthrop. He sold Judge Winthrop Swedish Plate
    Money on August 26th, 1787. -Editor]

    LIBRARY BEING DEMOLISHED FIGHTS BACK
    esylum_v10n28a26.html

    OLDEST COIN COLLECTION RECORDED IN THE U.S.?
    esylum_v03n46a08.html

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  • 2007-07-22
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