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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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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v10n29a10.html

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• 2007-07-22

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