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The E-Sylum: Volume 23, Number 8, February 23, 2020, Article 10

U.S. CONGRESSIONAL REPORTS ON NEWMAN PORTAL

Other new additions to the Newman Numismatic Portal are the U.S. Congressional Reports. Project Coordinator Len Augsburger provided the following report. -Editor

Congressional serial set in the Washington University library 2

saleofstandardsi0000hous_i8h4_0001 The congressional serial set, essentially the proceedings of the U.S. Congress for over 200 years, runs on the order of 20,000 volumes, a challenge most collectors would not even think to attempt. While this content has been digitized by ProQuest and others, most of it resides behind firewalls, and typically only academic libraries have access. Numismatic literature collectors typically encounter this material in the form of reports running several pages, which been extracted from bound volumes.

Washington University in St. Louis, a federal deposit library, holds a hardcopy of the entire set, and the Newman Portal has been scanning the bits of interest to numismatists. This material include legislation related to the production of coins and medals and well as formal reports on various coinage matters. A 1966 report, for example, discusses the sale of silver dollars from the U.S. Treasury, which throughout the 1960s and 1970s had significant impact on the numismatic market.

Images:

  • cover of "Sale of Standard Silver Dollars Held by the Treasury," 86th Congress, July 26-28, 1966.
  • Small portion of the Congressional serial set in the Washington University library stacks.

Link to U.S. Congressional Serial Set on Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/publisherdetail/512550

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