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Various Sources. Files Concerning Private and Institutional Numismatic Collections. Files include: extensive correspondence ...
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Institutional & Private Numismatic Collections
Various Sources. Files Concerning Private and Institutional Numismatic Collections. Files include: extensive correspondence between Eric P. Newman and Joseph R. Lasser, along with notebooks and personal memoranda, discussing various aspects of Colonial paper money, including a notebook summarizing the signers of Continental Currency, as well as references to the journals of the Continental Congress; an extensive inventory (c. 1963) of the F.C.C. Boyd collection of Colonial paper money, along with correspondence between Eric P. Newman and the New Netherlands Coin Co. concerning Newman's possible acquisition of the material; extensive and detailed inventories (c. 1970) of the Chase Manhattan Bank collections of 1) United States coins, including patterns, errors, commemoratives, and pioneer pieces, 2) United States paper money, including Colonial, Obsolete, fractional, and federal currency, 3) United States medals and tokens, and world medals and tokens, 4) world paper money, and 5) checks, documents, and odd & curious money; inventory (c. 1957) of the Wayte Raymond collection purchased by F.C.C. Boyd in 1957, including Colonial paper money, medals, and U.S federal and commemorative coinage; consolidated handwritten inventories by Newman (c. 1960) of various early American paper money collections, including those of Eric P. Newman, F.C.C. Boyd, Harley Freeman, the Connecticut Historical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, the New York Public Library, and the Greenfield Museum (Joshua Cohen), possibly incomplete; inventory (c. 1965) of the early American paper currency in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society, being a listing of 2,256 examples of Colonial currency, by state, in the AAS collection, with personal memoranda by Eric P. Newman noting duplicates and examples not present in the collection; correspondence (c. 1966) relating to the Winterthur Museum (Delaware) collection of Colonial paper money and an inventory of the same; an overview and inventory of over 800 pieces of United States paper money transferred from the Treasury Department to the Smithsonian (today the National Numismatic Collection), with 1978 press release; correspondence (c. 1994) and documentation related to the donation by Thomas Jefferson of a collection of coins and medals to the American Philosophical Society in 1806, based on research apparently conducted by Beth Deisher; and an inventory (c. 1963) of the collection stolen from John Davis, of Philadelphia, including a substantial amount of Colonial paper money, with listed serial numbers. Correspondence may include photocopies, carbon copies, printouts, or original letters. Materials are generally near fine.Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society.
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2024 March 25 Selections from the Eric P. Newman Correspondence Files US Coins Showcase Auction #63247 (go to Auction Home page)
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Truth Seeker: The Life of Eric P. Newman (softcover)
A powerful and intimidating dealer of the 1960s, backed by important colleagues, was accused of selling fraudulent gold coins and ingots to unsuspecting numismatists. Who would go up against a man like that and, over the course of decades, prove the fraud? Who would expose a widely respected scholar as a thief, then doggedly pursue recovery of coins that the scholar had stolen from an embarrassed numismatic organization, all over the objections of influential collectors who had bought coins with clouded titles? Eric P. Newman would - and did. Reserve your copy today.
A powerful and intimidating dealer of the 1960s, backed by important colleagues, was accused of selling fraudulent gold coins and ingots to unsuspecting numismatists. Who would go up against a man like that and, over the course of decades, prove the fraud? Who would expose a widely respected scholar as a thief, then doggedly pursue recovery of coins that the scholar had stolen from an embarrassed numismatic organization, all over the objections of influential collectors who had bought coins with clouded titles? Eric P. Newman would - and did. Reserve your copy today.
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