Saul Teichman Adds U.S. Coin Photo Files to Newman Portal

Saul Teichman continues to build condition censes of significant U.S. coins, with the most extensive work being done in the pattern series. Saul recently contributed a file on the Low 54-A Hard Times token, the well-known AM I NOT A MAN AND BROTHER anti-slavery piece. Until 2011 only three examples were known, from the Ford, Newman, and Partrick collections. The fourth piece was discovered in Canada and has since been offered by both Stack's and Heritage.

Eric P. Newman recounted his research work on the AM I NOT A MAN AND BROTHER token in the video "Promotion and Suppression of Hard Times Tokens," from the 1989 ANA convention. The work required extensive examination of the anti-slavery newspapers, many of a religious bent. "I read so many of them I nearly turned fundamentalist," Newman recalled.

Image: Low-54A, from the Newman collection (Heritage June 2016, lot 98196, realized $70,500).

Link to Teichman U.S. Patterns photo files:https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/archivedetail/548148
Link to Teichman U.S. Rarities photo files:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/archivedetail/556362
Link to Teichman U.S. Colonial coinage photo files:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/archivedetail/556767
Link to Teichman U.S. Error coinage photo files:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/archivedetail/556461
Link to Teichman U.S. Medals & Tokens photo files:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/archivedetail/556768
Link to Teichman U.S. Territorial gold photo files:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/archivedetail/554268
Link to Eric P. Newman lecture on the Low-54A:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diP_EsNWcPM