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Among the publications regularly archived by Newman Portal is the Seated Half Society (SHS) newsletter, Half Crazy. The SHS is akin to the Bust Half Nut Club, which requires members to build a significant collection of half dollar die marriages as a condition of membership. Half dollars of this era were struck in large quantities and remain eminently collectible today at many price points. The recent May issue of Half Crazy includes a feature on the 1846 Tall Date and Medium Date varieties, one of the most incorrectly attributed issues in the series, despite the clarifying images in the Guide Book and other sources.

Link to Half Crazy on Newman Portal: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/publisherdetail/548913

The St. Louis Ancient Coin Study Group meets monthly and features varied topics related to ancient and byzantine numismatics. At the March 19th meeting, David Grant focused on the extensive and highly varied coinage of the Roman emperor Probus (reigned AD 276–282), especially the antoniniani radiates. Grant explained how Probus inherited an empire recently reunified by Aurelian and worked to stabilize its military, economy, and administration while continuing coinage reforms. Much of the talk examines the complexity of Probus coinage: the numerous imperial mints, differing portrait styles, rare legends and titles, military and consular bust types, and the importance of modern scholarship and online databases in attributing and studying these coins. Grant emphasized that the six-year reign produced an enormous variety of coin types, making Probus one of the richest and most rewarding areas of Roman numismatics.

Link to “A Probus Primer”: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/655301
Link to St. Louis Ancient Coin Study Group presentations on Newman Portal: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/multimediadetail/552485