AMERICAN NUMISMATIC BIOGRAPHIES REVISED

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The E-Sylum: Volume 26, Number 2, January 8, 2023, Article 5

AMERICAN NUMISMATIC BIOGRAPHIES REVISED

Speaking of mortality, Pete Smith submitted this call for updates to his American Numismatic Biographies book. None of us is getting any younger, and now is a great time to record numismatist biographical details. -Editor

American Numismatic Biographies Revised

I suspect many E-Sylum readers have biographies on ANB. I invite readers to look themselves up and report back to me if their information is correct or should be revised.

In the last six months of 2022, I added hundreds of new names to American Numismatic Biographies and made four thousand changes. The 2023 revised version may be found on the Newman Numismatic Portal at https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/304.

Many of the listings are incomplete placeholder listings waiting for more information to be added. I am not looking for promotional hype but rather solid facts.

Individual entries from ANB are extracted and presented in the People section of the Newman Numismatic Portal. It will take a while for the 2022 changes to be posted.

I look forward to hearing from readers.

Please, please, do contribute to this important and monumental work. It's well worth the time to look up your entry, and those of your fellow numismatists. Along the way you'll discover a myriad of interesting facts about collectors, dealers, Mint officials, sculptors, engravers and just about anyone deeply involved in American numismatics from local clubs to the national level.

Meet vignette engravers, foreign exchange brokers, club presidents, book authors, millionaires, billionaires, "just plain collectors," members of the Assay Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts, the proprietor of the Numismatic Book Shop, and collectors who were expelled from the ANA, or were charged with bigamy. -Editor

To look for entries, see:
American Numismatic Biographies (https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/304)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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