No.
04
VOLUME 132 APRIL 2019
Contents for collectors of coins, medals, tokens & paper money
30
COVER STORY Photo: Robert B. Kelley Material: ANA Museum
The American Art-Union & C.C. Wright’s John Trumbull Medal A mid-19th-century organization devoted to promoting and preserving American art commissioned beautiful medals honoring U.S. artists. Jacob Lipson
PAGE 49
PAGE43
35
43 49
APRIL 2019
BRITISH COINAGE Bob Bair
U.S. COINAGE Mike Costanzo
EXONUMIA Charmy Harker
PAGE35
FEATURES
Queen Victoria’s Gold Sovereigns British coins bearing the monarch’s image helped facilitate Great Britain’s Industrial Revolution and symbolized the nation’s development into a mighty empire.
Removed from the Red Book The New England stiver once appeared in the popular reference, but it quietly disappeared from its pages in the early 1970s.
Louis S. Werner’s Novel Cents An enterprising numismatist made and sold clever souvenirs that memorialized historic events and special occasions.
money.org | The NUMISMATIST
3