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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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Jun 07 2026

St. Louis Ancient Coin Study Group Meeting Video

The St. Louis Ancient Coin study group is dedicated to education regarding ancient and medieval coins and tokens. The group meets monthly in the St Louis, MO area, with meetings simulcast on Zoom. Meeting video for the St. Louis Ancient Coin Study Group is posted on their Facebook page and is also archived on Newman Portal.

Doug Tomney’s presentation from their February 19, 2026 meeting, “Ancient Coin Collecting Themes and Strategies” provides a useful overview of the subject and offers a collecting framework for those not necessarily familiar with ancient numismatics. Collections might be organized around history, geography, rulers, denominations, or even metallic composition. By illustrating the many paths available to collectors, the presentation demonstrates how ancient coins can serve as an entry point into the broader study of history and material culture.

Link to St. Louis Ancient Coin Study Group meetings on Newman Portal: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/multimediadetail/552485

Link to St. Louis Ancient Coin Study Group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=st.%20louis%20ancient%20coin%20study%20group
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May 30 2026

Kress Auction Sale Catalogs on Newman Portal

In viewing the scanning queue at the American Numismatic Society, a recently digitized run of Karl Kress auction sale catalogs caught my eye. Kress, based in Salzburg, was the successor to Otto Helbing (sale nos. 1-88), and numbering in the Kress series begins with no. 89 in 1944. (As an aside, I’ve always been curious how numismatic sales managed to continue in a war-torn continent – another subject for another day.) 

Ted Buttrey’s Numismatic Auction Catalogues and Fixed Price Lists details over 55,000 auction sale catalogs and fixed price lists in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University and is the first place to look for related bibliographic information. Buttrey notes sales no. 89 – 191, from 1944 to 1986, and nos. 89-157 are now available. John Spring’s Ancient Coin Auction Catalogues identifies four of these sales (nos. 106, 110, 112, and 116) as significant for ancient numismatics. Many thanks to Lara Jacobs, who performs scanning and metadata processing at American Numismatic Society, under sponsorship of Newman Numismatic Portal. 

Link to Karl Kress auction sale catalogs: https://archive.org/details/newmannumismatic?tab=collection&query=kress&page=2&sort=-publicdate
Link to Ted Buttrey’s Numismatic Auction Catalogues and Fixed Price Listshttps://archive.org/details/buttreylists
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