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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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Jul 20 2025

Newman Portal Adds Mint Reports

The Newman Portal has added the United States Mint annual reports for the years 2021-2024. Notable programs in this period included the American Women Quarter series and the 100th anniversary of the Morgan and Peace silver dollars. While the Mint demonstrated continued profitability, the revenue decreases relating to circulating coinage were sharp, with revenue falling from $1,168m in 2020 to $553m in 2024. These annual reports extend the collection of Mint reports on Newman Portal, which begin with the 1795 submissions from Mint Directors Henry De Saussure and Elias Boudinot.


Link to U.S. Mint annual reports on Newman Portal: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/publisherdetail/51
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Jul 01 2025

Is There An American Medal Depicting Fireworks?

The tradition of displaying fireworks on Independence Day, July 4th, in the United States, is a long-standing one, dating back to the very first organized celebrations of the holiday in 1777. Founding Father John Adams foresaw such commemorations from the very beginning, writing to his wife Abigail on July 3, 1776 “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”


All this made us wonder if there is an American medal depicting fireworks. Newman Portal does not reveal such an example, through ironically our neighbors to the north placed a fireworks privy mark on the 1999-2000 Canadian Maple Leaf gold coins. The pieces were given a double date, with the privy mark denoting the new millennium. 


The only other relevant mention we found was a 1712 Charles VI medal, from Nurnberg, whch depicts a fireworks display in honor of Charles VI on January 16, 1712. This example is ex. Newman III (Heritage Auctions, January 2014), lot 30555, where it realized $4,700.

Link to “fireworks” search results on Newman Portal: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/searchwithterms?searchterm=fireworks

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