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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 01 2026

Newman Portal Adds Adolph Hess Catalogs

Thanks to the diligent efforts of Lara Jacobs at the American Numismatic Society, Newman Portal now includes 131 auction sales from the German firm Adolph Hess, dated 1875-1914.

Hess (1846-1912) launched his coin business in 1871 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and handled many important sales before selling his firm in 1894 to Louis Hamburger and his son-in-law, James Belmonte. Hamburger and Belmonte continued the business under the name Adolph Hess Nachfolger. The firm, today known as HessDivo, is currently based in Zurich.

The site rNumis.com lists 240 Hess catalogs total and further links to scans from Gallica (the digital face of the French National Library) and the University of Heidelberg.

Link to Hess catalogs on Newman Portal: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctioncompanydetail/515305
Link to Hess catalogs on rnumis.com: https://www.rnumis.com/house_auctions.php?house=HESS
Link to HessDivo history: https://www.hessdivo.com/history
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Feb 20 2026

Kent Halland Publishes The U.S. Postal Notes 1883-1894: How Many Were Issued at Each Post Office?

Between 1883 and 1894 the U.S. post office issued postal notes, essentially postal scrip used to transmit small of amounts of money through the mail. The post office charged three cents for each note, which could be used to forward sums up to five dollars. These items are similar to paper money, and not surprisingly were printed by firms such as the American Bank Note Company. Because most were redeemed upon receipt, few remain today.

Kent Halland has made of study of these notes, focusing on the question of where they were issued and how many remain. By compiling data from over 59,000 known notes and identifying highest serial numbers for 2,679 offices, he is able to account for nearly 48% of all Postal Notes issued, using extrapolation methods to estimate totals for remaining issuing offices.

This work was sponsored in part by a 2025 research grant from the Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society. Applications for 2026 grants are currently being accepted, until April 15, 2026.

Link to Kent Halland’s The U.S. Post Notes 1883-1894 on Newman Portal: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/booksbyauthor/558042
Link to 2026 Newman Grant application: https://archive.org/details/NewmanGrantApplication2026
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