Newman Numismatic Portal Scans 14,000 Pages in August

The Newman Numismatic Portal (NNP) continues to digitize numismatic literature and has processed 367 documents to date. These documents are available at https://archive.org/details/newmannumismatic.

The latest addition is a group of 50 U.S. Mint Reports loaned by Bill Burd, which brings the total on the Portal to over a hundred MintReports. Paul Hybert has loaned an early report for the year 1804 [image of front cover shown here] that will be posted shortly.

Also available is a substantial collection of Heath Counterfeit Detectors (the basis for Eric Newman's 1991 article on the subject), in addition to a number of mid-19th century bank note reporters. The Portal is currently organizing material from Eric Newman's personal archives and will be making some exciting announcements in the near future.

In addition, several specialty clubs have granted permission to scan and present their back journals, and announcements will be made as these come online. As reported in The E-Sylum on September 6, 2015, the Gobrecht Journal is one such publication already available through NNP.

While scanned material is currently stored and hosted on Internet Archive (archive.org link above), the Portal itself will be open in 2016 and will incorporate additional numismatic content already in electronic form. Individuals or organizations willing to share content with NNP should contact Len Augsburger, NNP Project Coordinator, at leonard.augsburger@wustl.edu.

Dave Ginsburg adds:

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
GOBRECHT JOURNALS #1-120 NOW ONLINE (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n36a11.html)