The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 23, June 10, 2007, Article 15

DAVE GINSBURG'S NUMISMATIC RESEARCH UPDATE

Dave Ginsburg writes: "I've been continuing my numismatic research 
and writing. I recently submitted an article summarizing the 
officers of the New Orleans Mint up to the Civil War to the Southern 
Gold Society Newsletter - thanks to the Senate Executive Journal 
on the Library of Congress' website.

"I'm also delighted to be able to say that, courtesy of my daughter 
the college freshman, I have some access to the US Serial Set and to 
the 'usual' 19th century sources (Hunt's Merchant Magazine, Bankers' 
Magazine and Niles' Register, etc.)!

"I forsee many, many months of happy research ahead! (It's especially 
wonderful to have access to the Congressional Committee reports and 
to the pre-Civil War Annual Reports of the Mint.)

"As an aside, I was re-reading your October 2006 review of Doug 
Winter's Gold Coins of the New Orleans Mint and noticed your comment 
that there wasn't a reference, in Greg Lambousy's chapter, to the 
article ("United States Branch Mint at New Orleans") by J.L. Riddell 
that appeared in the January 1846 issue of Hunt's Merchant Magazine.

"Now that I have access to that article, I wanted to mention that 
it is substantially similar to the 1845 pamphlet written by Riddell 
(and reprinted in The Numismatist many years ago). Also, essentially 
the same information appeared in an article in the June 1847 issue 
of DeBow's Review.

"There must have been something of a dearth of original material 
in those days - so much was reprinted from other sources! (I noticed 
that DeBow's made a particular practice of this.)"

[Best of luck to Dave in his research. I'm convinced that there 
are thousands of fascinating numismatic nuggets waiting to be 
discovered in the journals and periodical sets he's reviewing. 
His account of the personnel of the New Orleans Mint is a fine 
example. -Editor]

SOUTHERN GOLD SOCIETY
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DOUG WINTER'S GOLD COINS OF THE NEW ORLEANS MINT: 1839-1909
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BOOK REVIEW: GOLD COINS OF THE NEW ORLEANS MINT 1839-1909 
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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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