As part of an ongoing expansion and modernization program for its annual convention, leaders of the Central States Numismatic Society (CSNS.org) are partnering with Washington University's Newman Numismatic Portal (NNP) for a three-day symposium at the 2023 CSNS convention. The NNP Symposium sessions will also be live-streamed and archived for free accessat the NNP website, nnp.wustl.edu.

CSNS leaders have also suspended competitive exhibits for the 2023 convention to pause while examining possible changes to exhibit rules.

said CSNSPresident Mitch Ernst.

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emphasized Ernst.

"What worked in the 1970s doesn't work today and hasn't for decades, statedCSNS Convention Manager Larry Shepherd.

explained Ernst.

Len Augsburger, NNP Project Coordinator, and Lianna Spurrier, who producesthe NNP Symposium on behalf of the NNP, plan to host and livestream sixpresentations per day during the 2023 CSNS convention. Some sessions may featurematerial previously shared in an exhibit format, and the Newman Portal invites allpotential speakers or exhibitors to contact NNPCurator@wustl.edu for furtherinformation.

said Ernst.

The Newman Numismatic Portal (nnp.wustl.edu) is located at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, Missouri and funded by the Eric P. Newman NumismaticEducation Society. The NNP is dedicated to becoming the most comprehensive onlineresource for numismatic research and reference material, with a particular on Americancoinage and currency. Launched in 2016, the site now includes over 50,000 documents,representing five million pages of scanned and electronically acquired content.

The NNP Symposium hosted its inaugural event in 2020, followed by fouradditional events in 2021 and 2022. While all previous events have been entirely virtual,the partnership with CSNS will enable them to reach a new audience and expand theoutreach of the NNP Symposium, and the NNP as a whole. More information about pastSymposia can be found at nnpsymposium.org, and further information about the CSNSpartnership will be available in December.

The CSNS 2023 convention will be conducted April 27-29 at the SchaumburgRenaissance Hotel and Convention Center, 1551 North Thoreau Drive, in the Chicagosuburb of Schaumburg, Illinois. The 2023 PNG Day will be held there on April 26.

Information about the convention, including information about discount rates fortransportation and hotel accommodations, will be available on the CSNS website,CSNS.org.