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May 07 2024

Newman Portal Search Hints

Newman Portal searches from the home page are exact text only. If you enter multiple words, it will search for that entire phrase.

If you wish to search for multiple terms all one page, but not in exact order, use the search form at https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/powersearchform. For example, if you wish to locate pages containing the words "Washington," "medal," "birth," and "centennial," enter the search:

ItemContent:Washington AND ItemContent:medal AND ItemContent:birth AND ItemContent:centennial

You can also use Google to search the Newman Portal site. From Google, enter, for example:

"washington medals" site:nnp.wustl.edu

Finally, you can search the Newman Portal document repository directly (https://archive.org/details/newmannumismatic), which, in some cases, will deliver additional results. On this page, check the box "Select text contents" before searching.

For additional assistance, please email us at NNPCurator@wustl.edu.

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Mar 24 2025

Newman Portal Adds Bourgey Catalogs

Can you think of a numismatic firm that has maintained the same address for over a century? Remarkably, the Paris dealer Bourgey has held forth at 7 rue Druout since 1907. The business was founded by Étienne Bourgey (1864-1943) in 1895. Among other accomplishments, Étienne cataloged the 1922 Arras hoard, an important group of Roman coins that most notably included gold medallions. He was succeeded by his son Émile (1914-1993), a co-founder of IAPN, and today the firm is operated by Sabine Bourgey.  Newman Portal has recently added 94 auction sale catalogs from this firm, most of which were scanned at American Numismatic Society in New York. This is a useful resource for ancient numismatics, as John Spring’s Ancient Coin Auction Catalogues 1880-1980 includes Bourgey catalogs as nos. 9-59. Newman Portal acknowledges Sabine Bourgey for extending permission to present these catalogs with full view.

Link to Bourgey catalogs on Newman Portal: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctioncompanydetail/515406
Link to Sabine Bourgey Numismatique: https://sabinebourgey.com/
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Mar 19 2025

Newman Library Remainders Now Freely Available to Hobby Community

Following the Heritage Auctions’ sales of the frontline portions of the Eric P. Newman numismatic library in 2018 and 2024, the Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society (EPNNES) is now freely deaccessioning its library remainders to the numismatic public. The remainders consist primarily of modern American auction sale catalogs and periodicals, in addition to archival materials from the Newman museums and a wide variety of reference works. Materials scanned since the advent of the Newman Numismatic Portal (NNP) are voluminous, and EPNNES wishes to continue to grow its digital presence, rather than maintaining a physical collection. 
 
Eric P. Newman collected not only coins and paper money but further collected libraries. Beginning with the Burdette G. Johnson library in 1947, Newman acquired libraries from multiple individuals and institutions. The sheer mass of material was never completely consolidated, so searching through the library as it stands today is somewhat of a treasure hunt, and there is no doubt a surprise or two remaining in the stacks.
 
While we are unable to accommodate requests to search for individual items, collectors are invited to visit the library in St. Louis and to take any material of interest. Higher priority will be given to those intending to remove large portions of the collection. The library is currently housed at Washington University in St. Louis at the West Campus location (7425 Forsyth Boulevard). A loading dock is available. Viewing is by appointment only, please contact NNP Project Coordinator Len Augsburger (leonard.augsburger@wustl.edu) for further information.
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