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ABOUT THIS ISSUE: SEPTEMBER 7, 2025(https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n36a26.html)

Saxton's 1839 Photo From the U.S. Mint
Nick Graver writes:

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SAXTON'S 1839 PHOTO FROM THE U.S. MINT(https://www.coinbooks.org/v26/esylum_v26n45a22.html)

Snowden, Lindeman, and Edgar Adams

It's great to hear that work continues to unravel the mystery of the 1804 Dollars. I don't think Mr. Sholley or Mr. Dannreuther has read my article in the recent ANS Magazine regarding the 1910 pattern plot: "Of Patterns, Plots and the Most Singular Lot?" The coins given to Woodin came from the Mint, rather than from Col. Snowden. That conclusion came from documents from A. Piatt Andrews' estate found in 2022 in Stanford's Hoover Institute & Library, as well as auction records research.

I believe that the book 'The Fantastic 1804 Dollar' states that the Class II & III 1804 Dollars were struck at an earlier time and then the edge lettering was applied later to the Class III dollars, causing them to become cupped. (Is the Stack specimen cupped?) It's very possible that Lindeman promoted re-striking of those dollars, which were hidden away and later completed. The dies were destroyed by Snowden, with Lindeman's approval, in 1869. I suppose it's possible one or more Class III dollars were struck at that time and would not be cupped? In the event they were struck earlier, the later completion would also have involved Snowden. The two were very much linked and after 1866 Snowden ran the show in the Mint coining room, where patterns and restrikes were concerned. Record numbers of pattern pieces and many restrikes were struck between 1869 and 1872, when Lindeman was absent. All that's necessary for Mr. Adams to be the source of the Stack dollar was that Snowden possessed an 1804 Dollar, which did not appear after 1910.

Below is an excerpt concerning Edgar H. Adams from Q. David Bowers' A. N. A. Centennial History, Vol. 1, page 256;

Also, a correction; more that 15,000 pattern coins were produced from 1,100 patterns by Snowden between 1868 and 1885, rather than 20,000 (the estimated total number form more than 1,700 total patterns). I can produce the accounting documentation for this, if interested.

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MORE ON THE 16TH 1804 DOLLAR PROVENANCE(https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n36a12.html)

Ryan Kordziel: 3rd Place Numismatic Literature Exhibit
Kerry Wetterstrom writes:

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2025 ANA NUMISMATIC LITERATURE EXHIBIT AWARDS(https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n36a02.html)

The Collector is Never Satisfied
Mike Costanzo passed along this quote:

Mike adds: