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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ON NEWMAN NUMISMATIC PORTALThe latest additions to the Newman Numismatic Portal are numismatic articles from Scientific American. Project
Coordinator Len Augsburger provided the following report. -Editor
 From: How Money Is Made, December 7, 1872 Scientific journal articles are on overlooked source of numismatic information. Craig Sholley and others have used sources such as the Journal of the Franklin Institute to shed light on various technical issues within numismatics. The Newman Portal has recently extracted articles from Scientific American dealing with coins and paper money, and these are now available on Newman Portal. An article in April 1850 issue, for example, discusses the closure of the New Orleans Mint for administrative reasons – no one cared to apply for the open Treasurer position due to the lack of salary and the size of the bond required. Elsewhere, the February 1876 issue discussed protection of bank vaults. In total, approximately one hundred articles have been pulled and these provide an outsider’s view of American numismatics from an established and respected source. Excellent! A great but often overlooked information source. I asked Len who we could thank for this, and he said the work was
performed by students hired for the project at Washington University in St. Louis. They went through all the old issues and picked out pre-1923 (out
of copyright) articles related to coins or paper money.
There are several other periodicals with similar underutilized troves of numismatic information, if only someone could sort the wheat from the chaff. A few I can think of off the top of my head are: Gentleman's Magazine Historical Magazine Harper's Weekly Nearly any newspaper of course, has occasional numismatic articles as well. But what other periodicals or journals could we add to this list? Thanks. -Editor Link to Scientific American on Newman Portal: Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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