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The E-Sylum: Volume 20, Number 13, March 26, 2017, Article 9

NEWMAN PORTAL DIGITIZES EDGAR ADAMS DOCUMENTS

The latest addition to the Newman Numismatic Portal is a group of documents relating to Edgar Adams and U.S. pattern coinage. Project Coordinator Len Augsburger provided this report. The image is of Lot 139 from the Woodin catalog, an Amazonian $20 in copper (J-1251, realized $15.50). Thanks. -Editor

Lot 139 from the Woodin catalog, an Amazonian $20 in copper J-1251

Newman Portal user Saul Teichman recently loaned a group of Edgar H. Adams fixed price lists, as well as his 1911 auction sale catalog presenting duplicates from the William H. Woodin collection. Woodin, later Treasury Secretary under Franklin Roosevelt, famously traded two $50 gold patterns (J-1546, J-1548) to the Mint Cabinet in 1910 in return for “several crates.”

The inventory of these crates is something of a holy grail among pattern collectors, and it is unknown if such an inventory ever even existed. The 1911 auction catalog offers a hint as to what Woodin got from the Mint in return for the pair of gold patterns, which today are proudly on display in the Smithsonian as part of the National Numismatic Collection.

Edgar H. Adams Fixed Price Lists on Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/publisherdetail/517497

Edgar H. Adams Auction Catalog on Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctioncompanydetail/510207

Remember, there will be a User Forum at the upcoming CSNS show. -Editor

The Newman Portal will host a user forum at the Central States show, Thursday, April 27, at the Renaissance Convention Center. This event will be held from 11AM – 1PM in the Serendipity Room. Lunch is included. We will present current status of the Newman Portal, including upcoming features and new content, and solicit user feedback on future direction. Admission is free, but please reserve a spot via email to Len Augsburger, Newman Portal Project Coordinator, at leonard.augsburger@wustl.edu. A similar event at Baltimore in November filled quickly, so please let us know as soon as possible if you wish to attend.

To visit the Newman Numismatic Portal, see:
www.newmanportal.org

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NEWMAN PORTAL USER FORUM AT CSNS CONVENTION (www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n10a08.html)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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