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The E-Sylum: Volume 8, Number 36, August 21, 2005, Article 12 OFFICE OF THE U.S. MINT HISTORIAN Len Augsberger writes: "Regarding the Mint historian, I picked up a business card at the Mint's ANA display: Betty Birdsong / Operation Manager, Office of the Historian, / Department of the Treasury, US Mint / 801 9th St. NW. / Washington, D.C. 20220 I didn't get a chance to talk to her at the ANA, but surely someone on the E-sylum readership did? The question I had was, what's in their collection and it is unsearched material that has never been part of the archives?" Dave Lange writes: "I don't know the name of the historian, but the person manning the Mint's history display at the convention was Betty Birdsong, Operations Manager, Office of the Historian. She was quite helpful in permitting me to examine the ledger containing complete die records for 1917-35. This is amazing information which I had assumed was lost to history (and which I wish I had while preparing the new edition of my Mercury Dime book). I asked whether these books could be studied at some location for research purposes, but she told me that they must remain within the Historian's office, which is not open to non- employees. She did believe that these ledgers would be scanned at some point and put online, but the exact timing of this had not yet been determined." Douglas Mudd, Curator and Director of Exhibitions at the American Numismatic Association writes: "The Mint Historian is Maria Goodwin." [I've written to both Ms. Birdsong and Ms. Goodwin inviting the to join The E-Sylum mailing list. -Editor] 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@coinlibrary.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum | |
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