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The E-Sylum: Volume 22, Number 45, November 10, 2019, Article 7

VIDEO: SECRET OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN SHILLING

The latest addition to the Newman Numismatic Portal is a new video about Eric Newman's research on the Good Samaritan Shilling. Project Coordinator Len Augsburger provided the following report. -Editor

Getting to Know Eric P. Newman, Part 1

Good Samaritan counterstamp on a Noe-25 Pine Tree shilling Lianna Spurrier is well-known to E-Sylum readers and has completed two video series for Newman Portal, including same-day coverage of the 2019 World's Fair of Money and a group of videos aimed at young numismatists. Spurrier now starts a new video series focused on publications of Eric P. Newman. The first entry focuses on Newman's 1959 work The Secret of the Good Samaritan Shilling. One of the most notorious fabrications in the history of American numismatics, this piece sold for $650 in the Bushnell (1882) sale. By way of comparison a Birch cent from the same collection sold at $290. Newman demonstrated that the Good Samaritan counterstamp on a Pine Tree shilling was not contemporary, and hoped that he would be a "Good Samaritan" in having set the record straight. The work combined Newman's interest in colonial numismatics and expertise in counterfeit detection, and is neatly explicated in this new video by Spurrier.

Image: The "Good Samaritan" counterstamp on a Noe-25 Pine Tree shilling

Link to Secret of the Good Samaritan Shilling video on NNP:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/570537

Link to Ford/Hamelberg copy of the Bushnell sale on NNP:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctionlots?AucCoId=21&AuctionId=510831



Wayne Homren, Editor

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