NBS Podcast Discusses Rare Documents from the Dan Hamelberg Library

The latest episode of the NBS Bibliotalk podcast, "Collection Highlights Continued (Part 2), with Dan Hamelberg" is now available on the NBS website and other popular podcasting platforms such as Apple Podcasts. In this post, Dan focuses on historical documents with Mint and Treasury Department connections. It is challenging to identify highlights from this unparalleled library, but among them are the Thomas Jefferson-signed copy of the April 2, 1792 Mint Act, and a March 28, 1792 letter from John Adams discussing the fate of the Mint Act.

Moreover, the collection traces the formation of the Mint beginning with precursors such as Jefferson's 1790 Report on Weights, Measures, and Coins, and the 1786 Confederated Congress legislation that established the dollar and decimal coinage as monetary standards. The collection does not stop with the establishment of the Mint in 1792. Hamelberg further collects Mint appointments, and desiderata such as an 1859 letter from the Mint Director James Snowden to the Philadelphia collector Joseph Mickley, inquiring about Washington pieces for the Mint Cabinet. Among modern items are a President Nixon-signed letter presenting "first strike" Eisenhower dollars.

Spending time with Dan to put together this podcast was a pleasure, and we hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we did creating it.

Link to "Collection Highlights Continued (Part 2), with Dan Hamelberg" on the NBS website:
https://www.coinbooks.org/resources/podcast.html