Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1860-1864

Scope and Content

Scrapbook contains clippings mostly from newspapers from New York—such as the Observer, Times, Post, and Journal of Commerce—but also some from New England. Topics include coins and medals, counterfeiting, coins of the New Testament, medals of Washington, medals of the British army, Pickens and Sumter medals, a medal of South Carolina (Palmetto State), a new Japanese coin, gold coinage, meetings of the Boston Numismatic Society, a gold medal for General Grant (1864), a criticism and defense of American die-sinkers, and reports of coin sales of Cogan, Bangs, Merlin, Leavitt, and Bramhall. Throughout is handwritten text that appears mostly to have been copied directly from articles on numismatic topics in publications such as Penny Magazine, but there are also brief comments on a few articles, one of which is signed “D.P.,” possibly indicating that the scrapbook was compiled by Daniel Parish, Jr., president of ANS from 1884 to 1896.