Newman Portal and D. Wayne Johnson Collaborate on Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

The Newman Numismatic Portal (NNP) and D. Wayne Johnson are pleased to announce the Newman Portal has been selected as the online platform for Johnson's Encyclopedia of Coin and MedalTechnology. Content from Johnson's Encyclopedia has been integrated into the NNP Dictionary, introducing authoritative and concise entries of nearly two thousand terms related to the design,manufacture, collecting and curating of coins and medals. Johnson will continue to oversee the Encyclopedia content in its online form, adding additional entries and developing illustrativematerial necessary to clarify technical aspects of medallic development.

Johnson said "I envision this project as a living thing. It has the advantage of being easily modified and brought up-to-date as new technology becomes apparent in the minting field, or whennumismatists originate new terms in describing specimens." Len Augsburger, Newman Numismatic Portal Project Coordinator, added "We are excited to host the Encyclopedia on the Newman Portal.Johnson has been an enthusiastic scholar in the field since the 1950s and we are privileged to share his work with the greater public."

The first editor of Coin World, D. Wayne Johnson is a recognized authority on medallic technology and former Director of Research at the Medallic Art Company. He has published twobooks and more than 1,500 articles in the field and overseen the development of numerous privately-struck medals, including the Eric P. Newman Centennial Medal. Johnson is a founding member of theRittenhouse Society, a group created in the late 1950s in response to a growing need for original research in American numismatics.

In addition to collectors, the Encyclopedia will serve researchers, writers, and particularly catalogers who will find the exact term to describe die-struck numismatic items, includingcoins, medals and tokens. Each entry defines the term followed by a paragraph or more of basic information in the development of the term; 55 entries are more than a thousand words in length.

The Newman Numismatic Portal (NewmanPortal.org) was launched in November 2014 by the Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society (EPNNES) with the purpose of making numismatic literature andimages available on a free and forever basis to numismatic and other communities. The Portal's collection of over 13,000 documents now represents the largest online American numismatic library. TheNewman Portal is administered by Washington University in St. Louis through a grant from EPNNES. Newman, Johnson, and Augsburger are all graduates of Washington University.

Link to sample entry ("modeling") from the Johnson Encyclopedia on the Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/dictionarydetail/516345

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