NEWMAN NUMISMATIC PORTAL DIGITIZES THE ASYLUM

With approval of the NBS board, and at no cost to the NBS, the Newman Numismatic Portal (NNP) has completed scanning of The Asylum through the year 2013. These issues are online and may be viewed at https://archive.org/details/newmannumismatic?and[]=asylum.

The Newman Portal, administered through Washington University in St. Louis, has two overhead scanners in operation and has processed over 60,000 pages since June 2015. Progress on The Asylum has been rapid – following NBS board approval on August 13, and written approval of President Marc Ricard on September 2, scanning has been completed in just a few weeks. Individuals or organizations with similar needs are invited to contact NNP project coordinator Len Augsburger at leonard.augsburger@wustl.edu.

“At the ANA Convention last year in St. Louis [1979], about a dozen fellow bibliomaniacs gathered together for an informal dinner and agreed to form an organization for numismatic book and catalogue collectors,” wrote editors Jack Collins and George Kolbe in the inaugural issue of The Asylum. The remainder of the issue covered topics which nearly thirty years later still prove timeless – John Adams on literature of the large cent, or George Kolbe on Crosby (#2 on our list, arguably #1 at the time as Breen did not yet exist). In between there and here The Asylum has served as the platform for core studies, esoterica, and more than a few pointed comments on the state of American numismatics.

To view The Asylum Wiki page, see:
http://wiki.coinbooks.org/index.php/THE_ASYLUM

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