2025 NLG BOOKS OF THE YEAR ANNOUNCED

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The E-Sylum: Volume 28, Number 34, 2025, Article 3

2025 NLG BOOKS OF THE YEAR ANNOUNCED

Our sister organization, the Numismatic Literary Guild, announced winners of their annual awards at this week's American Numismatic Association World's Fair of Money. This year's David W. Lange Memorial Book of the Year competition resulted in a rare tie - tied for First Place - Mark Lovmo's Korean Coins at the United States Mint and Len Augsburger and Joel Orosz's The Publications of Eric P. Newman shared the honor. Congratulations to Mark, Len, Joel, and Kolbe & Fanning Booksellers, who also picked up a top award this year. -Editor

Front Cover of Korean Coins at the U.S. Mint

publications of Eric P. Newman book cover

Len and Joel are President and Historian respectively, of our sponsor organization, the Numismatic Bibliomania Society. K&F published the book and their own award-winning catalog. They sent this announcement to their clients on Friday. Len and David Fanning are shown holding their awards. -Editor

New Newman Bibliography Wins Book of the Year

We are proud to announce that the Kolbe & Fanning publication The Publications of Eric P. Newman: A Collector's Guide by Leonard D. Augsburger and Joel J. Orosz was awarded the Numismatic Literary Guild's Book of the Year for 2025. This is the fourth time the pair of authors has won the NLG's Book of the Year for their books The Secret History of the First U.S. Mint (2011), Truth Seeker: The Life of Eric P. Eric Newman (2016, with Roger W. Burdette), and 1792: Birth of a Nation's Coinage (2017, with Pete Smith).

Also winning an NLG award this year was our catalogue of Sale 172, featuring materials from L.D. and I.P. library in the category of Best Exonumia/Americana or Numismatic Literature Catalog. We have also won NLG awards for our auction catalogues in 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021.

For more information, or to order, see:
THE PUBLICATIONS OF ERIC P. NEWMAN: A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE (https://www.numislit.com/pages/books/7537/leonard-d-augsburger-joel-j-orosz/the-publications-of-eric-p-newman-a-collectors-guide)

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
NEW BOOK: KOREAN COINS AT THE U.S. MINT (https://www.coinbooks.org/v27/esylum_v27n50a05.html)
NEW BOOK: PUBLICATIONS OF ERIC P. NEWMAN (https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n09a03.html)
BOOK REVIEW: THE PUBLICATIONS OF ERIC P. NEWMAN (https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n10a07.html)
NEW BOOK: TRUTH SEEKER: THE LIFE OF ERIC P. NEWMAN (https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n01a04.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org.

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