Among the pieces acquired for the Mint was a Brasher doubloon, of which only six are known today. Eckfeldt often spent from his own funds to acquire the coins for the Mint. The collection eventually evolved into the Smithsonian Institution's National Numismatic Collection. In 1828, Eckfeldt again became involved in the real estate transactions to expand operations at the Philadelphia Mint. For $1,000, he purchased one of the lots he had rented in 1805. After the mint moved to new premises in the 1830s, Eckfeldt discovered that the lot he had purchased had a cloud, or irregularity, on its title; he was able to clear it and sold it in 1837 for the same sum for which he had bought it.
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Adam Eckfeldt | Chief coiner
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who was adam eckfeldt?
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John Adam Eckfeldt was a worker and official of the United States Mint.
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1793
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1792 half disme
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what was his contribution as a chief coiner?
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He put aside interesting foreign coins sent to the mint as bullion. These pieces became the Mint's Cabinet, or coin collection.
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Eckfeldt served a quarter century as chief coiner, during which time the Philadelphia Mint moved to new premises. As he set aside unusual coins brought in as bullion, he started the Mint's coin cabinet, which evolved into the National Numismatic Collection. Even after his 1839 retirement, Eckfeldt continued to perform the duties of chief coiner; his death in 1852 caused his replacement, Franklin Peale, to seek an assistant.
Adam Eckfeldt | Introduction
The new mint building was at Juniper and Chestnut Streets, only six blocks from Eckfeldt's home at Juniper and Vine.
Adam Eckfeldt | Chief coiner
Among the pieces acquired for the Mint was a Brasher doubloon, of which only six are known today. Eckfeldt often spent from his own funds to acquire the coins for the Mint. The collection eventually evolved into the Smithsonian Institution's National Numismatic Collection. In 1828, Eckfeldt again became involved in the real estate transactions to expand operations at the Philadelphia Mint. For $1,000, he purchased one of the lots he had rented in 1805. After the mint moved to new premises in the 1830s, Eckfeldt discovered that the lot he had purchased had a cloud, or irregularity, on its title; he was able to clear it and sold it in 1837 for the same sum for which he had bought it.
Adam Eckfeldt | Chief coiner
On the death of the first chief coiner, Henry Voigt, in early 1814, Eckfeldt was appointed by President James Madison as successor. He served in that capacity for a quarter century. During his tenure, he continued to improve the machinery at the Philadelphia Mint. Eckfeldt set aside "master coins"—coins struck with extra care using new dies and polished planchets. He also put aside interesting foreign coins sent to the mint as bullion. These pieces became the Mint's Cabinet, or coin collection. To fill gaps in this collection, he used old dies to strike postdated coins. Specialists have discovered that some dies he chose for this purpose had not been used together to strike coins for commerce, thus creating unique specimens.
Adam Eckfeldt | Chief coiner
During Eckfeldt's childhood, the thirteen British colonies along the Atlantic coast of what is now the United States revolted, and so the United States of America secured its independence. After the United States Constitution was ratified, Congress and many government offices came to be housed in Philadelphia, including the newborn Mint of the United States. Adam Eckfeldt built the first screw press for the new facility in 1792, the same year that the Mint Act of 1792 was passed by Congress authorizing a mint, and cut the obverse die for the experimental Birch cent of that year. He also built other machinery for the Mint, and helped superintend the early coining.
Adam Eckfeldt | Coin designer and Mint official
Veit an der Glan as well as from other lands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire are on display. The collection traces the history of coin mintage and names from around the world with prehistoric Celtic coins from the region, shells, early forms of paper currency and the euro in addition to international coins of historic significance minted in Africa, the US, and by the Dutch East India Company among others. The permanent collection, with an additional room for temporary exhibitions, is fittingly situated in the oldest portion of palace dating to the late Middle Ages and once belonging to Balthasar Eggenberger, mint master and financier to Emperor Frederick III in the early days of Mercantilism.
Universalmuseum Joanneum | Coin cabinet
The National Numismatic Collection is the national coin cabinet of the United States. The collection is part of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
National Numismatic Collection | Introduction
The collection was preserved during the period of the German Democratic Republic.
Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena | History
The Brussels Coin Cabinet is a public numismatics collection established on 8 August 1835 that is now the Coins and Medals Department of the Royal Library of Belgium. At its foundation it was part of the "Musée d'armes anciennes, d'armures, d'objets d'art et de numismatique". It became part of the Royal Library of Belgium three years later.
Brussels Coin Cabinet | Introduction
The Ernst Badian Collection of Roman Republican Coins is housed by the Special Collections and University Archives of the Rutgers University libraries. At the 2012 meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, ancient historians T. Corey Brennan and Jerzy Linderski delivered papers reflecting on the historical methodologies employed by Badian.
Ernst Badian | Legacy
According to Bruun's testament, his collection of coins, bank notes and medals from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Schlesvig and Holstein as well as his numismatic library is to act as a back-up for the Royal Danish Coin and Medal Collection for a period of one hundred years. It was initially deposited at the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle but has been transferred to the National Museum in Copenhagen.
Lars Emil Bruun | Coin and medal collection
After his death, the collection was willed to the City of Omaha and the Omaha Public Library. Today the Byron Reed Collection is in the care of, and on display at, the Durham Western Heritage Museum in Omaha. According to Larry Wilson, a historian and numismatic researcher for the Independent Coin Grading Service:
Byron Reed Collection | Display
The textiles collection was donated to the Art Institute of Chicago. Many of the coins were donated to the American Numismatic Society. Much of the rest were donated to the Indiana University Art Museum.
Burton Y. Berry | Introduction
The history of the collection goes back to the 17th century. In total, it comprises close to 40,000 objects. Archives items include coin dating back to the sixth century BC to modern digital currencies. The collections of older Swedish coins and medals are especially important, together with the collections of coins from the Viking age, early modern European coins and Islamic coins. The coin cabinet is principally focused on supporting research and education at Uppsala University. Therefore, only a very representative fraction of the collections can be viewed in exhibitions. The main exhibition of coins and medals from the Middle Ages.
Uppsala University Coin Cabinet | History
John Adam Eckfeldt (June 15, 1769 – February 6, 1852) was a worker and official in the early days of the United States Mint. A lifelong Philadelphian, Eckfeldt served as the second chief coiner of the Mint, from 1814 until 1839. Eckfeldt's father owned a large smithy and involved himself in early attempts at American coinage. Adam Eckfeldt built early presses for the Mint, engraved some of its early dies, and was responsible for the designs of early American copper coinage, as well as the 1792 half disme which some authorities consider the first United States coin. He was appointed assistant coiner of the Mint in 1796, and became chief coiner on his predecessor's death in 1814.
Adam Eckfeldt | Introduction
Harold Raby succeeded Steinthal as honorary keeper and they were responsible for work on the arrangement and identification of the coins.
Manchester Museum | Numismatic collection
The Uppsala University Coin Cabinet ("Uppsala universitets myntkabinett") is one of Sweden's most important public coin and medal collections. It is housed in the main building of Uppsala University.
Uppsala University Coin Cabinet | Introduction
The Harry W. Bass Collection features American gold coins, experimental pattern coins and paper money. The museum also offers changing exhibits about money in history, art, archeology, banking and economics, and coin collecting. Members may study the items on display and, by prearrangement, can use other museum materials for research purposes.
American Numismatic Association | Headquarters
Born in Philadelphia in March 1803, Jacob R. Eckfeldt was a son of Adam Eckfeldt, chief coiner at the United States Mint. He followed his father into the same area of government service, entering the U.S. Mint during an early period in his life. He then steadily worked his way up at the Mint until becoming chief assayer. During his tenure, he reported problems with certain lots of English sovereigns that had been sent to the mint for recoinage, noting that these particular lots fell below the Mint's standard. Denied by English authorities as "impossible" because the London mint "makes no mistakes," Eckfeldt was vindicated by the resulting investigation which confirmed Eckfeldt's findings.
Jacob R. Eckfeldt | Formative years
Eckfeldt operated his screw press to strike these roughly 1,500 pieces on July 13, 1792. Since the first Philadelphia Mint was still under construction at the time, these coins were produced in the cellar of John Harper, saw maker, at Sixth and Cherry Streets in Philadelphia. In his annual message to Congress late that year, Washington noted the ongoing construction of a mint building and stated: "There has also been a small beginning in the coinage of half dismes, the want of small coins in circulation calling the first attention to them." Eckfeldt also produced a pattern disme, of which only a few were struck.
Adam Eckfeldt | Coin designer and Mint official
Over the years purchases and gifts have expanded the size of the cabinet. 1899 the cabinet bought the collection of Albéric du Chastel. It consists of approximately 800 Greek and Roman pieces. Some of these are rare, for instance the aureus of Uranius Antoninus. One year later it obtained its most precious gift. After the death of major collector Lucien de Hirsch, his mother gave his collection to the Belgium State. The biggest treasure of this collection is without doubt the tetradrachm of Aetna, supposedly the most valuable item in the entire field of numismatics, whatever the period or the place of striking.
Brussels Coin Cabinet | Collections
Unfortunately, little is documented of the original collection of Pieter Teyler. When he died, he had a large collection of natural history artefacts, medals, drawings, and a large library. The early executors of his will seem to have sold some of it to create the Oval room, and much of the rest of it was mixed in with later purchases, but many aspects of his collection remain in the mission of the various aspects of the museum. Curators over the years have managed to reconstruct much of his coin collection, and many of the paintings he purchased for his home are still installed where they were intended.
Pieter Teyler van der Hulst | Collection
In response, parliamentary law ordered close examination of the weight and fineness of coins worldwide, which determined that coins produced in the United States were more uniform than the coins of other nations, a finding which enhanced Eckfeldt's worldwide reputation as an assayer. Appointed to his post during Andrew Jackson's presidency, Eckfeldt held that position until his death.
Jacob R. Eckfeldt | Formative years
Her varied collections were left to her brother and sister-in-law who presented them to the British Museum and the Royal Mint Museum. Her coin collection is now divided between the British Museum and the Royal Mint, while her prints are housed between the British Museum and British Library. The rediscovery of her scrapbook on the London Monster, a man who attacked dozens of women 1788–90, led directly to Jan Bondeson's book on the subject in 2000.
Sarah Sophia Banks | Legacy
Thompson, a position he held until 2000. He is now an honorary curator and life fellow of the American Numismatic Society. He has been a visiting professor at several notable institutions, including Columbia University, Princeton University, University of Padua, Bryn Mawr College, Rutgers University, and New York University. He became curator of coins and medals at the Yale University Art Gallery and professor of classics (adjunct) at Yale University in 2002; in 2007, his position was endowed as the Ben Lee Damsky Curator of Coins and Medals, a post he held until his retirement in 2014.
William E. Metcalf | Education
In that year, the mint produced two pieces in proof. The first resides in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.. The second was presented to Treasury Secretary William M. Meredith and was later sold as part of his estate—the present location of this coin remains unknown.
Double eagle | Introduction
With more than 300,000 coins, medals and banknotes from the ancient world to the present time, it is one of the world's leading collections.
Munich Residenz | The coin collection
Eckfeldt married twice. No children were born of his brief first marriage in 1792 to Maria Hahn, which ended with her death; his second marriage to Margaretta Bausch produced six children. Among them were his daughter Susanna, who married William Ewing DuBois, first curator of the Mint's coin collection. Jacob Reese Eckfeldt, one of Adam's sons, was for forty years (1832–1872) Assayer of the United States Mint. Jacob's son Jacob Branch Eckfeldt exceeded both forebears in time of service, working at the Mint for 64 years, from 1865 to 1929. Adam Eckfeldt had a taste for horticulture and owned rural property in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, which was inherited by his two sons after his death.
Adam Eckfeldt | Private and family life
The Residenz houses the Bavarian state coin collection, the . It was found by Duke Albert V. By the accession of Elector Palatine Charles Theodore (1777–1799), the Palatine and the Electoral Bavarian collection were combined. During the Napoleonic era many monastic coin collections came into the care of the Bavarian state. Crown Prince Ludwig, later King Ludwig I, had much enthusiasm for Ancient Greek coins and spent a lot of time examining the collection. In the first three decades of the 20th Century, the collection was extended to house the Renaissance coins, medals and insignia. In 1963, the current exhibition rooms were opened in the Munich Residenz.
Munich Residenz | The coin collection
As of November 2012, the collection consists of around 21,000 Islamic coins and 1,200 East Asian coins. The Oriental Coin Cabinet in Jena contains collections from the following persons:
Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena | Sources of the collection
The Teylers Coin and Medal Room, or Numismatisch Kabinet, is a small display room in Teylers Museum that was designed in 1888 and furnished with special display cabinets in 1889.
Teylers Coin and Medal Room | Introduction
Mansfeld-Büllner was the owner of an extensive coin collection. He published "Afbildninger af samtlige hidtil kjendte Mønter fra Tidsrummet 1241-1377, 1887" in 1887. The illustrations have later been republished by J. Chr. Holm in 1954. His coin collection was after his death purchased by Isak Glückstadt.
Harald Valdemar Mansfeld-Büllner | Numismatic collector
By October 1795 he was on the mint's payroll, as a die forger and turner, at a salary of $500 per year. On January 1, 1796, Mint Director Elias Boudinot appointed him as assistant coiner, with the consent of President Washington. His duties in that capacity were broad. In 1805, at Boudinot's request, Eckfeldt eliminated a security problem for the Mint by renting two houses adjacent to its operations, allowing it to shut an internal alley to public access. The following year, new Mint Director Robert Patterson requested a pay increase of $200 for Eckfeldt, writing to President Thomas Jefferson that Eckfeldt had "the management of the whole coining department".
Adam Eckfeldt | Coin designer and Mint official
The Coin Cabinet also traces its origin to the private collection of Archduke Johann. With over 70,000 objects, it is currently the second largest, public coin collection in Austria. Through a combination of state-of-the-art technology and historical items, the coins, currency and equipment related to minting trace the history of regional coin circulation and minting from the prehistoric era to the eurozone. Among the most significant pieces are coins from finds in and around Styria that were in circulation at the time of the Roman Empire. Additionally, Friesacher and Grazer "Pfennigs" from the Middle Ages and coins and medallions from the Inner Austrian mints in Graz, Klagenfurt and St.
Universalmuseum Joanneum | Coin cabinet
The collection of coins, medals and paper currency consists of over 600,000 objects drawn from all periods and cultures. In many fields the ANS' collections are the most comprehensive anywhere in the world. The collection includes early numismatic items from Ancient Greece and the Roman Republic, and also has a strong representation of coins of American, European, Far Eastern, and Islamic origin. These coinages range from 700 BC to the present. In addition, the collection contains paper and primitive money, as well as medals and decorations dating back to as early as approximately 4000 BC. The curatorial department of the ANS preserves, studies, and documents the extensive collection.
American Numismatic Society | Collection
The British Museum Department of Coins and Medals is a department of the British Museum involving the collection, research and exhibition of numismatics, and comprising the largest library of numismatic artefacts in the United Kingdom, including almost one million coins, medals, tokens and other related objects. The collection spans the history of coinage from its origins in the 7th century BC to the present day, and is representative of both Eastern and Western numismatic traditions.
British Museum Department of Coins and Medals | Introduction
Grierson's growing interest in numismatics soon brought him into contact with the coin room at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and he was appointed Honorary Keeper of Coins and Medals in 1949, and served as a syndic of the museum until 1958. Under his influence, the department of coins and medals in the Fitzwilliam became one of the most active and productive research departments in the museum. It contains a room named in his honour, which houses Philip's collection. He remained an almost daily visitor to the coin room, adding new specimens to his collection and meeting visitors, until very shortly before his death.
Philip Grierson | Fitzwilliam Museum
Always proud of his collection, which included toys from his childhood as well as the mementos he collected from jobs and his military service, he began to display it at home. Over the years he began to fill his basement with items that he found at flea markets, antique shops, and from family and friends. As his house began to fill he started moving more and more of his collection to his office. At the office Abe began displaying and organizing most of his collection. He was able to sort his collection into groupings that included items from pharmacies, breweries, barbershops, and grocery stores.
Chudnow Museum of Yesteryear | The Collection
A collection of recovered coins is maintained at the Tunisian Mint Museum () at the Central Bank in Tunis.
Carthaginian coinage | Collections
At the death of Stickel in 1896 the collection comprised about 12,000 specimens. At the end of the 19th century the keen interest of Orientalist for Islamic coins as textual sources lost its momentum, because of the abundance of other now edited texts. In 1906 Stickel's successor, the Orientalist Karl Vollers gave the figure of about 14,000 specimens. He died in 1909. The last professor for Oriental studies Arthur Ungnad left the University in 1919. In 1939, about 4,000 coins were given back to the now abdicated Grand-Ducal family. Several hundreds of coins were then lost in the aftermath of World War II.
Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena | History
The museum's coin collection was established around 1840 and contains approximately 50,000 coins, medallions, bank notes, and chips. The most important part of the collection contains coins from the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, discovered at archaeological excavations, along with some incidental finds in Romsdal, Nord-Møre, Trøndelag, and the southern parts of Nordland. The collection also contains donations, like the Arne E. Holm's collection of Greek, Roman, and Byzantium coins and Anton Røstad's collection of European coins and bank notes from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The collection even contains German bank notes from the 1920s, including the 50 billion mark.
NTNU University Museum | Coin collection
Besides Pieter Teyler's original collection, the Teyler's had acquired collections of 675 coins from West-Friesland and 2,395 coins of Gelderland.
Teylers Coin and Medal Room | History
Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena () is a collection of oriental coins at Jena University, in Jena, Germany, founded in 1840.
Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena | Introduction
The surviving collection is now held in the National Museum, Gdańsk. Many works from the original collection were unfortunately looted or destroyed during the Second World War. The collection of Far Eastern art and the collection of antique coins had disappeared entirely by the end of the war. Kabrun also bequeathed 100000 florins to establish a Business Academy in Danzig.
Jacob Kabrun Jr. | Life
The collection is housed at the NCM library and is non-circulating (that is, items cannot be checked out or loaned out), but photocopying and photography of items in the collection are allowed.
David Kahn (writer) | Later career
The National Numismatic Collection comprises approximately 1.6 million objects and is one of the world's largest and most diverse collections of coins, paper currency, medals, commodity currencies, financial instruments, exonumia and related items. As the collection of record for the U.S. monetary system, it holds the collections of the U.S. Mint, Treasury, and Bureau of Engraving and Printing. In addition, it includes collections donated by individual collectors and private institutions, such as the collection of the Chase Manhattan Bank Money Museum.
National Numismatic Collection | Overview
The British Museum Catalogues of Coins was a series envisioned and initiated by Reginald Stuart Poole, Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals, at the British Museum, between 1870 and 1893. The aim was to produce a scholarly series of catalogues of the collection, based on the British Museum's collection and other collections. The series continued after his retirement, and continues to this day, with the collection increasingly being made available online.
British Museum Catalogues of Coins | Introduction
Eventually his collection was to include over 20,000 specimens, worth several million pounds as a whole. It is the finest representative collection for medieval Europe in the world. Although it resided in the Fitzwilliam Museum for many years, his collection only passed to the museum upon his death, and was retained in his own name so as to facilitate the selling of old specimens and the purchase of superior ones. Grierson was never especially wealthy, and only built the collection by spending most of his modest inheritance and two-thirds of his annual income as an academic on coins. It helped that he started collecting at a time when the London numismatic dealers were awash with material from the enormous collection of Lord Grantley.
Philip Grierson | Coin collection
Chou bought Bowker's library of numismatic books and donated it to Bruce W. Smith. The following major donations from the Howard Franklin Bowker Collection have been made: Coins from the Bowker East Asian Collection were sold at auction on 23 August 2016.
Howard Franklin Bowker | His collections
As a collector, he owned a complete collection of US $3 and $1 gold coins from all five mints where they were coined, one of only two such collections in existence.
A. G. Heaton | Numismatics
Among the Campana collections, only the numismatic collection of some four hundred Roman and Byzantine gold coins remained in Rome, purchased in 1873 by the administration of the Capitoline Museums, thanks to the interest of Augusto Castellani, who was a founding member of the Commissione Archeologica Comunale, and was named director of the Capitoline Museums the same year. The bequest of his own collection of over nine thousand more coins provided the nucleus of today's public collection.
Giampietro Campana | Dispersal
The coins eventually made their way from Yugoslavia to the National Numismatic Collection in Washington, D.C. via Rome, New York, and Berkeley. This large and unique collection has resided in the Smithsonian Institution since the 1950s. More than 10,000 Russian coins and 1,250 medals form part of the collection George Mikhailovich once owned.
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919) | Coin collection
Imhoff also collected coins and he cataloged the coin collection of Duke Albert V of Bavaria.
Willibald Imhoff | Introduction
List of prominent objects in the coin and medal room: In 1888 on the advice of Adriaan Justus Enschedé, a numismatic curator was appointed to oversee the collection, and the first appointment was given to Theodorus Marinus Roest.
Teylers Coin and Medal Room | Coin and medal room
During Bosbyshell's tenure, quantities of pattern coins, restrikes, and pieces struck in different metals flowed to well-connected collectors and dealers, and Bosbyshell sold a large personal collection of such pieces shortly after leaving office.
Oliver Bosbyshell | Return to Pennsylvania
Bruun collected coins from an early age and with his increasing wealth his collection developed into one of the largest private collections of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and British coins and medals of its time. Un 1914 and 191, he sold the Swedish part of his collection. In 1922, shortly prior to his death, he acquired an extensive coin collection which had belonged to the counts of Brahesminde. The British part of his collection was sold in auction in London after his death, except for the coins from Northumberland, 8East Anglia and Ireland which was donated the Royal Danish Coin and Medal Collection at National Museum.
Lars Emil Bruun | Coin and medal collection
The British Museum is home to one of the world's finest numismatic collections, comprising about a million objects, including coins, medals, tokens and paper money. The collection spans the entire history of coinage from its origins in the 7th century BC to the present day and is representative of both the East and West. The Department of Coins and Medals was created in 1861 and celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2011.
British Museum | Department of Coins and Medals
These catalogues were compiled by Stanley Lane Poole, Percy Gardner, E. J. Rapson and John Allan, and the series was edited by Reginald Stuart Poole. For details of the collectors, authors, editors, printers, publishers and distributors of this series, see Wang and Errington (2019).
British Museum Catalogues of Coins | Series: Catalogue of Indian coins in the British Museum
When the Mint's first cents (produced in 1793) were found to be excessively crude and attracted public ridicule, Eckfeldt was called upon to design replacements. He placed a wreath on the back of the cent instead of the original chain, and placed a trefoil under Liberty's head on the obverse. He also engraved the first half cent dies later the same year. Eckfeldt continued to work intermittently for the Philadelphia Mint; in 1793, he built a device for automatically feeding planchets into the die collar and ejecting the struck coins, and the mint's records reveal that he did piecework there in July 1795.
Adam Eckfeldt | Coin designer and Mint official
Part of the Mir Zakah hoard, a very unusual deposit containing enormous numbers of coins from the fourth century BC to third century AD, totalling 11,500 silver and copper coins were kept in the museum. Part of the hoard was published by DAFA. The museum has appointed a curator for Numismatics but the collection remains closed to scholars and the general public.
National Museum of Afghanistan | Numismatic Collection
Carel Albert Woelderen donated coins and medals from his collection, the basis for the formation of one of the largest numismatic collections in the Netherlands of more than 3,500 items. Among other coins on display are Spanish ones from the VOC ship, "Rooswijk", which sank in 1740 off the Goodwin Sands in the English Channel.
Zeeuws Maritiem muZEEum | Numismatic collection
US$250,000 worth of coins were recovered from the crash site, including the 1913 Liberty nickel, which was protected in a custom-made holder. When Walton's heirs put his coins up for public auction in 1963, the nickel was returned to them, because the auction house had mistakenly determined the coin to be not genuine. As a result, the coin remained in the family's possession, being stored in a strongbox on the floor of a closet in his sister's home, for over 40 years. In July 2003, the American Numismatic Association arranged to display the four specimens whose whereabouts were known. As a publicity stunt, public relations consultant and former ANA governor Donn Pearlman launched a nationwide hunt for the missing fifth specimen.
1913 Liberty Head nickel | Walton specimen
Location: European Museum of Money The collections comprise coins, banknotes, medals and commemorative medals. The coin section gathers items from mints operating in Poland over the time, from the Piast era to modern times. Some coins exhibited have been manufactured at the very place (1594–1688) on Mill Island: half-thalers, thalers, silver money from 1650 and two ducats from 1660. More than 400 specimens cover a collection of medals related to Bydgoszcz (from the 19th century to the present day).
Regional Museum &quot;Leon Wyczółkowski&quot; | <a href="Numismatics">Numismatics</a> collections
Bowers, in his sylloge of the Bass Collection, particularly blames these irregularities on Oliver Bosbyshell, chief coiner at Philadelphia from 1876 to 1885. During that period, quantities of pattern coins, restrikes, and pieces struck in different metals flowed to well-connected collectors and dealers, and Bosbyshell sold a large personal collection of such pieces shortly after leaving office as chief coiner. Although Bosbyshell returned as Philadelphia Mint superintendent from 1889 to 1894, he does not appear to have resumed his illicit activities. The relatively large mintage of about 6,000 in 1887 was due to a fad sweeping the country whereby men would present their lady friends with a coin with one side ground off and replaced by the woman's initials.
Three-dollar piece | Final years and termination
Greene’s". The collection merited interest from several scholars, who wrote to Greene to request permission to study the coins. He also received several requests to have plaster casts made of specific coins, including one from the American Numismatic Society. Greene considered selling the collection to the Museum in 1917, but decided to retain ownership of the coins in order to continue to add to and improve the collection. The coins remained on loan until Greene negotiated its sale to the Museum in January 1940. Since then the RISD Museum has continued to acquire more coins for their collection. Although Greene’s original set of coins may form the core of the museum’s collection, it is not referred to as the Henry A.
Henry A. Greene | Ancient Greek Coin Collection
According to experts, "Byron Reed was one of the greatest collectors of the 19th century," with a reputation as a numismatist that is "largely unrecognized." According to Larry Wilson, a historian and numismatic researcher for the Independent Coin Grading Service, "The exhibit is an environmental museum where the visitors walk through a replication of the original Byron Reed Library. The coins are displayed in beautiful dark wooden cases that give the visitors the sense they are part of the exhibit. It gave me the feeling I was back in the 1880s sitting in Byron Reed's library examining his coins with him.
Durham Museum | Byron Reed Collection
He served as Keeper of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum from 1988 to 1991 and from 2008 until his death held the post of Honorary Keeper of Ancient Coins.
Theodore V. Buttrey Jr. | Career as professor
As with the coin cabinet collection, the mineralogical collection traces its origin to the private collection of Archduke Johann, which encompassed several thousand pieces at that time. Today the inventory has grown to about 80,000 specimens. The collection presents minerals from across the world as well as a Styrian regional collection. The mineralogy department of the Joanneum was where Friedrich Mohs developed the Mohs scale of mineral hardness which remains authoritative. He was the first curator of the Joanneum.
Universalmuseum Joanneum | Mineralogy
In 1819 the first preparations of 181 native land and water birds, 50 exotic birds and a collection of nests and eggs formed the "cabinet" of the Ornithological Society. In 1827 the collection was extended by 150 North American bird species (by G.S. Oppelt, Fairfield, Canada). In 1837 the coin collection was stolen and in the same year the mineral cabinets were opened. In 1846, three spacious rooms were rented per year for 50 Thalers on the first floor of Petersstraße 3 to house the collection. In the same year, visitors could marvel at the collections on two mornings of the week.
Museum of Natural History, Görlitz | Collection Holdings
The Q. David Bowers Collection of Chinese coins was sold in 2018: The Q. David Bowers Collection of Chinese Coins in Copper - sale in Hong Kong, 2 April 2018.
Q. David Bowers | Numismatic legacy
The collection was assembled by the anatomist and physician, William Hunter (1718–83), who was an avid collector of coins, medals, paintings, shells, minerals, books and manuscripts. Considerable purchases were made in Paris from monastic houses and private libraries, such as those of César de Missy and Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Other major acquisitions were made in Vienna and Italy. The library and other collections remained in London after Hunter's death for the use of his nephew, the physician and pathologist, Matthew Baillie (1761–1823), as well as William Cumberland Cruikshank (1745–1800). It moved to the University of Glasgow in 1807. The coins were stored for six years in the Bank of Scotland.
Hunterian Collection | History
The State Museum also contains the Uttar Pradesh Coin Committee’s headquarters, and the director of the museum is the ex-officio secretary of this committee. Therefore, the museum collection houses a vast number of coins, with most of them in the reserve collection. The collection is divided into three chronological sections— the first section containing coins between the 8th century BC to 2nd century AD, the second containing coins from the Mughal period and the last section displaying military medals awarded to British soldiers sent on missions. Coins from Panchal, Ayodhya as well as Indo-Greek kingdoms along with Indo-Parthian, Kushana and Gupta coins can be found in this collection.
State Museum Lucknow | Numismatics
Professor Christopher Howgego is a British numismatist and academic, who is the current keeper of the Heberden coin room at the Ashmolean Museum. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Professor of Greek and Roman Numismatics at the University of Oxford.
Christopher Howgego | Introduction
He also left his enormous personal coin collection to the Society.
American Numismatic Society | History
He also presided over the Oriental Section of the International Numismatic Congress in London in 1936. Coins from the Whitehead Collection are in the British Museum (purchased in 1922). His papers are in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
R. B. Whitehead | Biography
The following Keeper of Coins and Medals, Dr Mark Blackburn, first came to the department in 1982 as part of the "Medieval European Coinage" project to publish Philip's burgeoning collection.
Philip Grierson | Fitzwilliam Museum
This series was prepared by Harold Mattingly, R.A.G. Carson, and P.V. Hill.
British Museum Catalogues of Coins | Series: Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum
In 1909, he donated his own collection to the Alexander III Museum, which was used as part of a massive work by a group of noted Russian scholars sponsored, and contributed to, by the grand duke. The upheavals of World War I caused the worried grand duke to have his collection crated and stored at the State Loan Bank in Saint Petersburg for safekeeping. During the Revolution, four of the five crates were smuggled out of the country under mysterious circumstances. Part of the collection was stolen in the West, but the grand duke’s widow did receive most of it.
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863–1919) | Coin collection
Today, the coins are on exhibit in Elmalı Museum.
Elmalı | Elmalı Treasures
One of the museum's collections is the Porzellansammlung Laufenberg-Wittmann, which contains rare material from the early 18th century onwards. A collection of coins and medals with around 65,000 individual items is also available.
Historisches Centrum Hagen | Introduction
The Numismatic Cabinet is also a center of scholarly research and has a public library of some 30,000 volumes.
Dresden Castle | Numismatic Cabinet (Coin Cabinet)
These catalogues were prepared by Stanley Lane Poole, and edited by Reginald Stuart Poole.
British Museum Catalogues of Coins | Series: Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum
These include coins, banknotes, dies, plates, and engraving tools, bank and government ledgers, weights and scales, cash registers, wallets, numismatic medals and cards and examples of counterfeit money. This collection was on display until 2013, and currently, most of it is in storage and is not available to visitors. The National Currency Collection also encompasses a library and archive, which contain over 8,500 books, pamphlets, catalogues and journals dating back to the Middle Ages.
Bank of Canada Museum | Introduction
It entered then the Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena.
Frédéric Soret | Biography
Hendershott started collecting coins at age 12, finding half cents, large cents, two-cent pieces, half dimes and other obsolete coinage still in circulation." He was one of the key organizers of the Tampa Coin Club and Florida United Numismatists, serving as president of both organizations. Hendershott received the American Numismatic Association's Farran Zerbe Memorial Award for Distinguished Service.
Robert L. Hendershott | Numismatics
The Foster Hall Collection contains many primary sources:
Stephen Foster Collection and archive | Holdings
The National Museum has a large collection of coins, the Austrian numismatist Robert Göbl reported it contained 30,000 objects during a UNESCO sponsored audit of the collection. It is unknown how much the collection has grown since or what was lost during the various wars since. The collection contains the bulk of archaeological material recovered in Afghanistan. It has not been published, but individual hoards and archaeological sites have been. The French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (DAFA) published the coin finds made at the town of Surkh Kotal. Some of the coins found at the excavation of Begram have been published.
National Museum of Afghanistan | Numismatic Collection
Legh Keck collected stuffed animals and birds and horns from animal from around the world. He owned a collection of classical style statuettes and casts of figures by the sculptor Antonio Canova.
Bank Hall | History
Bass, Jr. collection housed at the American Numismatic Association Money Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Pattern coin | Modern United States patterns
In 1840, Johann Gustav Stickel, Professor for Oriental languages at Jena University, succeeded in convincing the Grandduke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach to acquire a collection of 1,500 Oriental coins, and allowing him to study them. The collection was formed by Heinrich August Zwick, missionary of the German Protestant Herrnhut-Brotherhood, in Russia. He lived at the missionary outpost and small town Sarepta at the banks of the Volga river from 1816 to 1832. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of the Volga archaeology. Stickel won Maria Pavlovna, the Grand duchess, as the main benefactor of the collection, which in turn grew rapidly.
Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena | History
For her PhD, she explored the social networks of coin collectors in 19th century China. The title was "Les cercles de collectionneurs et de numismates dans la région de Pékin durant la première moitié du XIXème siècle". From 2014 to 2017 she was a fellow of Worcester College, University of Oxford, and Sackler Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum, where she curated the East Asian and subsequently Adjunct Professor in the Department of East Asian languages and civilizations.
Lyce Jankowski | Career
The first coins were donated by the businessman Reuben Spencer in 1895 and the rest of his collection of European coins and commemorative medals in various metals was donated in instalments. Alfred Güterbock deposited, then bequeathed a collection of 380 Greek gold, silver and copper coins together with some Roman coins. In the next forty years four benefactions were made: in 1912 from William Smith Churchill (European coins of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries); in 1925 William Smith Ogden's collection of antiquities, including Greek and Roman coins; in 1939 Egbert Steinthal, honorary keeper of the coin room, presented his collection of English copper coins; and in 1958 Harold Raby's bequest of Greek and Roman coins.
Manchester Museum | Numismatic collection
There were no exceptions unless one considers the 1849 Double Eagle a coin. This is generally categorized as a pattern coin and only two were made: one is on display at the Smithsonian Institution and the other was given to then Treasury Secretary William M. Meredith but its subsequent whereabouts are unknown. No one had ever accomplished this coin collecting feat before, and probably no one will ever accomplish it again. There were one or two coins unknown at the time of completion of his collection that were later discovered. Some of the highlights of the Eliasberg collection include a 1913 Liberty Head nickel known as the "Eliasberg Specimen".
Louis E. Eliasberg | Introduction
The coin is stored in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.
Chernihiv hryvnia | History
Around 1610 he appointed the Antwerp engraver and publisher Jacob de Bie as keeper of his extensive ancient coin collection. Jacob de Bie moved to Brussels where the Duke was living and began to work on an edition of the collection. Charles died in January 1612 before Jacob de Bie had finished the edition, which only appeared in 1615 in Antwerp under the title "Imperatorum Romanorum Numismata Aurea a Julio Cæsare Ad Heraclium Continua Serie Collecta". It contained 64 plates reproducing the Roman coin collection of Charles.
Charles III de Croÿ | Numismatic collection
The Royal Coin Cabinet is an institution with a national responsibility for the conservation and the historical studies of coins, medals, and finance in general. Through exposition the institution offers insights in the economical history of the world, by lending objects from its collection to researchers and expositions all over the world it helps developing the knowledge within its scope, and by maintaining a national register of coin hoards it is of great importance to scholars in Sweden. Over the portal is a piece of art by Elisabeth Ekstrand from 1996 called "Vattenporfyrlek" ("Water Porphyry Game") made of porphyry and marble.
Slottsbacken | Royal Coin Cabinet
Louis Edward Eliasberg, Sr. (February 12, 1896 – February 20, 1976) was an American financier and numismatist. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, he is best known in the numismatic community for putting together the only complete collection of United States coins ever assembled, with attention to coins in the best possible condition. Although the set was not truly "complete" by modern standards (for instance, it did not differentiate between proofs and circulation strikes, as most modern collectors and set registries do), it is still the most comprehensive U.S. numismatic collection to date. The Eliasberg collection did not distinguish between proofs and circulating strikes and die variations were not emphasized.
Louis E. Eliasberg | Introduction
This has enabled the museum to purchase important hoards of gold and silver coins, many of which were buried during periods of crisis or upheaval. There are approximately 9,000 coins, medals and banknotes on display around the British Museum. More than half of these can be found in the Citi Money Gallery (Gallery 68), while the remainder form part of the permanent displays throughout the museum. Items from the full collection can be seen by the general public in the Study Room by appointment. The department celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2011.
British Museum Department of Coins and Medals | History
The Minto Papers is a collection of family, estate and political manuscripts related to the family of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Baron Minto and his descendants. The collection has in it over 2000 manuscript volumes. The bulk of the collection was initially purchased in 1958 by the National Library of Scotland (NLS), with later additions to the collection made by purchase and donation. The collection is stored at the NLS main building on George IV Bridge in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The Minto Papers | Introduction
Thanks in significant part to Hiller, the Penn Museum’s collection of Ainu artifacts is one of the largest in any museum. The Foundation for Research and Promotion of Ainu Culture (FRPAC) borrowed a sizable portion of the Penn Museum's collection to display in the Ainu Craft Exhibition 2008 at the Niigata Prefectural Museum of History in Nagaoka City, Japan. The Penn Museum also holds 57 artifacts and 3 diaries Furness and Hiller brought back from Amami and Okinawa, and the university library has additional materials.
Hiram M. Hiller Jr. | Collections