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Eric P. Newman Research Files: Origins of the Dollar SignOne box of correspondence, photocopies, personal memoranda, and various manuscript and draft materials on the origin of the dollar sign and Newman's article "The Dollar $ign: Its Written and Printed Origin," published in the proceedings of the 1993 Coinage of the Americas Conference (COAC). Over 1000 pages present. Materials generally well-preserved. Much of this lot consists of correspondence Newman conducted with an impressively wide variety of people from around the world, many of them not numismatists. The subject was, broadly speaking, the development of the modern dollar sign in handwritten materials in the 18th century and its development in printed type in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The specific discussions in each piece of correspondence ranges widely, however, from Portuguese manuscript materials to English type foundries, from early American math textbooks to Thomas Jefferson letters. Correspondents include Ned Downing, Light Cummins, the Library Company of Philadelphia, James Mosley of the St. Bride Printing Library in London, the Lancaster County Historical Society, Bill Anderson of Suffolk Community College, the Joseph Regenstein Library in Chicago, the American Antiquarian Society, Washington University's Olin Library, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Clyde Hubbard, James Killie, the American Numismatic Society, John Herzog, and the Museum of American Financial History. Various materials are also present in photocopy, including excerpts from the Journal of the Continental Congress and Chauncey Lee's 1797 American Accomptant. The present lot also includes pre-publication materials for Eric P. Newman's COAC presentation and the subsequent published version of his article. Numerous typed drafts are present, some with handwritten edits, some with comments by others; copies of the final submitted draft and the page proofs are also included. Taken as a whole, this archive demonstrates nicely the ways in which Eric P. Newman approached a problem from many different angles while finding his way toward a solution. Estimate $2,000. Ex: Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society.
Heritage Auctions 11/2018 (Newman XI), lot15142 (realized $780).
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