DENNIS TUCKER TO SPEAK AT NNP, ANA EVENTS

Georgia)—Award-winning author Dennis Tucker will give a presentation for the 2025 Newman Numismatic Portal Symposium on Thursday, April 24, and will present a NumismaTalk for the American Numismatic Association on Thursday, May 8. His subjects are the design process for U.S. coins and medals, and Philippine coins minted by the United States.

Tucker's NNP Symposium talk is titled From Concept to Pocket Change: How U.S. Coins Are Designed. He draws on eight years of experience as the numismatic specialist of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, as well as his visits to every production facility of the United States Mint during his 2004–2024 tenure as publisher at Whitman Publishing. While Tucker served on the CCAC (a committee that advises the Secretary of the Treasury), he reviewed hundreds of design proposals for dozens of coin and medal programs.

In his illustrated talk, he goes behind the scenes in Congress, at the U.S. Mint, in the artist's studio, and on the Mint's production floor to show how a coin or medal goes from the idea stage to a finished product. This lecture will be presented virtually at the Central States Numismatic Society's 86th Anniversary Convention, at 3:00 pm Central on Thursday, April 24. The convention is held at the Schaumburg Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center, in Schaumburg, Illinois, close to Chicago's suburban Woodfield Mall.

The NNP Symposium is hosted and livestreamed on behalf of the Newman Numismatic Portal, the most comprehensive online resource for numismatic research and reference material, with a focus on American coinage and currency. The NNP is online at nnp.wustl.edu.

In May, Tucker's NumismaTalk—part of the American Numismatic Association's twice- monthly live webinars—is on Collectible World War II Money: U.S./Philippine Coins. During World War II, more than a million American service members fought in the Pacific Theater to help free the Philippines from Japanese control. When they came home after the war, many of them carried local souvenirs of their service. These included silver and bronze coins that were minted for the Philippines but bear the words UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. What's the story behind these coins? Are they rare? How much are they worth today? This richly illustrated presentation tells about these special World War II–related coins and their history starting in the early 1900s—part of the unique historical and numismatic connection between the United States and the Philippine Islands. The talk will be held Thursday, May 8, at 12:00 noon Mountain Time.

 

The ANA bills its NumismaTalks program, part of its eLearning Academy, as a chance to expand your numismatic knowledge with free webinars presented by top industry experts. The hour-long presentations are recorded and archived online at info.money.org/numismatalks.

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