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The E-Sylum: Volume 19, Number 20, May 15, 2016, Article 7

BASS NUMISMATIC INDEXES PROJECT BACK ONLINE

Great news! The American Numismatic Association has restored the Numismatic Indexes Project (NIP) to their web site. It had been temporarily dropped in their recent site upgrade. Harry W. Bass Jr. worked with database developer Ed Deane to digitize indexes of major U.S. numismatic periodicals, a useful resource for researchers even with the availability of today's internet search engines.

To access NIP from the ANA site at www.money.org, navigate the menus from DISCOVER --> LIBRARY --> HARRY W. BASS JR. INDEX. The below description was copied from the old site for an E-Sylum article in 2005. -Editor

The NIP indexes cover a wide range of numismatic scholarship over many decades from both this century and the last. From the American Numismatic Society they include:

  • American Journal of Numismatics (AJN1), First Series 1866-1924
  • ANS Proceedings (ANSPROC) 1878-1914
  • Museum Notes (MUSNOTES) 1945-1988
  • American Journal of Numismatics (AJN2), Second Series 1989-Current
  • Coinage of the Americas Conference (COAC) 1984-Current
  • Numismatic Notes and Monographs (NUMNOTES) 1921-1968
  • Numismatic Studies (NUMSTUDIES) 1938-1993

OTHER INDEXES
In addition to those above, these periodicals are included in NIP:

  • The Numismatist (ANA), 1888-Current, from the American Numismatic Association
  • Numismatic Scrapbook Magazine (SCRAPBOOK), 1935-1975, from COIN WORLD
  • Numismatic Review (NUMREV), 1943-1947, produced by Stack's (Numismatists)
  • Coin Collector's Journal (CCJOUR#1), 1875-1888, by Scott Stamp and Coin Co.
  • Coin Collector's Journal (CCJOUR#2) - New Series, 1934-1954, Wayte Raymond
  • Colonial Newsletter (CNL) 1960-Current, Colonial Newsletter Foundation
  • The Celator (CELATOR) 1987-1988, The Celator

The NIP index can be a useful starting point for researchers. While many of these publications have now been digitized by the ANS, ANA and the Newman Numismatic Portal, some, like Numismatic Scrapbook have not. Also, NIP is useful for getting a compact list of "hits" for your search terms, especially against the incredibly useful human-compiled Author and Subject fields. -Editor

To go directly to the Numismatic Indexes Project, see:
http://nip.money.org/nip/NumismaticIndexes_list.asp

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
NUMISMATIC INDEX BACK ONLINE (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v03n29a04.html)
HARRY W. BASS, JR. FOUNDATION WEBSITE (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v04n27a02.html)
NUMISMATIC INDEXES PROJECT (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v08n13a15.html)

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