The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 33, August 19, 2007, Article 3

NUMISMATIC LITERATURE EXHIBITS AT THE 2007 MILWAUKEE ANA CONVENTION

The Numismatic Bibliomania Society raised and donated funds to endow
the American Numismatic Association's Class 22: Numismatic Literature
exhibit category, the Aaron Feldman Memorial award for printed and
manuscript (published or unpublished) literature dealing with any
numismatic subject.

Chief Judge Joe Boling reports that the following exhibits were
on display this year:

* Leon A. Saryan, Ph.D.Seminal Works of 19th Century Armenian
 Numismatic Literature
* Emmett McDonald Metric Coinage
* Lawrence Sekulich The Provenance of Tudeer 99a

A list of all past exhibits can be found on the NBS web site at:
club_nbs_exhibits.html

"Former NBS President Pete Smith reports: Competition was strong
in all areas of exhibits at this year's ANA convention in Milwaukee.
Exhibits in the class of numismatic literature stood up very well
against this competition.

"Third place winner in the class was "Metric Coinage" placed by
Emmett McDonald. His one-case exhibit showed a government pamphlet
with a proposal for metric coinage along with two pattern metric
coins.

"Second place went to Larry Sekulich for "The Provenance of Tudeer
99a." I was very impressed with this exhibit when I saw it earlier
at a Michigan State show. As explained in the exhibit, Tudeer 99a
is a choice example of a Syracusian tetradrachm showing the head
of Arethusa. Sekulich previously won the Howland Wood Best-of-Show
award for his exhibit on the nymph Arethusa.

"Leon Saryan, Phd. served as Co-chairman for exhibits in Milwaukee.
His exhibit was "Seminal Works of 19th Century Armenian Numismatic
Literature." As I began to read the text in the first case, it was
clear this exhibit deserved the first place award it received.
Shown were the classic monographs on Armenian literature in the
finest condition one would expect to find.  The Armenian literature
exhibit also received the Rodger E. Hershey Memorial People's Choice
Award.

"Finally, Saryan placed third in the competition for Best-of-Show.
He was up against a three-time winner for Best-of-Show and the winner
from the Charlotte convention. These are the best results for a
literature exhibit since 1996."

[Pete's too modest, but I have to mention that in 1996 the Best-of-Show
award was won by Pete himself with "The Challenging Literature of A. M.
Smith".  An online version of his winning exhibit is displayed on the
NBS web site. -Editor]

To view Pete's exhibit on The Challenging Literature of A. M. Smith, see:
club_nbs_exhibit_amsmith.html

Steve D'Ippolito writes: "The second runner up exhibit for best of
show (a/k/a the Bronze Howland Wood medal) was Leon Saryan for
'Seminal Works of 19th Century Armenian Numismatic Literature' in
the Numismatic Literature class.  Dr. Saryan ALSO won the People's
Choice award, and this is the first time someone has done that and
been one of the three top in show, according to the judges.  I was
really happy to see that happen.

"My own winning exhibit has a more tenuous connection to literature
-- it dawned on me about two months ago that I had at least one coin
from almost every section of the back chapters of Uzdenikov's 'Russian
Coins' and that if I could come up with a common theme better than
'Coins from the back of Uzdenikov' I could make an exhibit of it.
I did, naming it 'Russian Coins of Conquest' and it took best in
show a/k/a the Gold Howland Wood medal, which makes three in a row
for me."

[Congratulations to all this year's exhibitors, and thanks to the
ANA and the judges for making it all happen.  Time to start planning
for next year in Baltimore!  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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