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

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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