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May 07 2024

Newman Portal Search Hints

Newman Portal searches from the home page are exact text only. If you enter multiple words, it will search for that entire phrase.

If you wish to search for multiple terms all one page, but not in exact order, use the search form at https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/powersearchform. For example, if you wish to locate pages containing the words "Washington," "medal," "birth," and "centennial," enter the search:

ItemContent:Washington AND ItemContent:medal AND ItemContent:birth AND ItemContent:centennial

You can also use Google to search the Newman Portal site. From Google, enter, for example:

"washington medals" site:nnp.wustl.edu

Finally, you can search the Newman Portal document repository directly (https://archive.org/details/newmannumismatic), which, in some cases, will deliver additional results. On this page, check the box "Select text contents" before searching.

For additional assistance, please email us at NNPCurator@wustl.edu.

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Jun 06 2025

Newman Portal Adds FUN Convention Video

The Florida United Numismatists (FUN) winter and summer conventions are two of the most prominent events on the annual coin calendar, with the winter edition being especially attractive to collectors seeking warmer temperatures. Indeed, FUN describes itself as a “snow-free coin show.” With the assistance of FUN board member Steve Martin, Newman Portal has added 12 videos representing educational presentations from the January 2025 convention. Included are David Harper, former Numismatic News editor, presenting his “Ten Numismatic Predictions for 2025.” Harper reviews his performance on last year’s predictions (a rare bit of accountability in today’s world!) and issues a new set of prognostications for 2025. Among other sessions are Tom Walker speaking on the detection of cleaned coins, Bill Jones holding forth on early Lincoln cents, and John Zampedro presenting on “Errors 101.”


Link to FUN home page: http://funtopics.com/
Link to FUN videos on Newman Portal: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/multimediadetail/549321
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May 27 2025

Newman Portal Adds Bill Bugert Doubled Date Census

Bill Bugert is well-known as the authority on Liberty Seated half dollar (1839-1891) varieties and has published well over a thousand die marriages in his ongoing series, A Register of Liberty Seated Half Dollar Varieties, with six volumes published to date. In addition, Bugert maintains separate censes on the more notable issues in this series, including the rare 1878-S. Bill has developed an extensive network of contacts with the Liberty Seated half dollar community, and any public appearance of an example will not go unnoticed. Bill’s pedigrees are lengthy, and the bar to offer a new coin as “fresh to the market” is exceptionally high. Bill’s latest publication, A Register of 1849 WB-6 Dramatically Doubled Date Liberty Seated Half Dollars, represents a census of the 38 known examples of the WB-6 variety and includes photographs of nearly every piece.


Link to A Register of 1849 WB-6 Dramatically Doubled Date Liberty Seated Half Dollars: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/647959
Link to Bill Bugert publications on Newman Portal: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/booksbyauthor/361
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