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American Numismatic Society's Groves Forum Lecture Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:00pm Wine & Cheese Reception 7:30pm Lecture
“Frank H. Stewart, Master of the Mint” Presented by Leonard Augsburger and Joel J. Orosz |
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Those interested in attending please RSVP by Monday, March 10th, 2008 to Megan Fenselau (212) 571-4470 ext 1311, |
Proto-sketch of "Ye Olde Mint", possibly by Frank Stewart. From the Stewart Collection at Rowan University. |
Much of what we know about the first United States Mint (1792-1832) in Philadelphia we know because of one man: Frank H. Stewart. He bought the former Mint property in 1907, unsuccessfully sought to preserve at least one of its buildings, and then worked hard to commemorate it after the buildings were demolished. Despite this debt owed to Stewart by all numismatists, we know very little about him, or the impact his efforts have had upon the hobby. In the American Numismatic Society’s Groves Forum Lecture authors Leonard Augsburger and Joel J. Orosz will present a report on research results from their book-in-progress, Pictures of the First United States Mint: The Numismatic Legacy of Frank H. Stewart. The authors will present an illustrated discussion of Stewart's biography, a selection of the Mint artifacts he donated to the Congress Hall collection (and the fate of those relics), images of the early Mint and, especially, the rich artistic legacy of the paintings Stewart commissioned artists Edwin Lamasure and John Ward Dunsmore to create. Most of the images will be unfamiliar even to advanced numismatists, and several have never been seen outside of the repositories which own them. How these paintings came to be, and how they have defined the image of the first Mint for generations of numismatists, will be examined for the first time. Leonard Augsburger is a frequent speaker and author specializing in United States numismatics. His work emphasizes the integration of new bibliographic and archival resources into the current literature. His first book, Treasure in the Cellar, the story of the Baltimore gold hoard (1934), will be published by the Maryland Historical Society in summer 2008. Mr. Augsburger has been employed in the telecommunications industry by Motorola, Inc., since 1987, and is a graduate of Wheaton College and Washington University. Joel J. Orosz, who has contributed articles to Numismatist for 20 years, is a past winner of the ANA’s Heath Literary Award and Raymond Research Award. He specializes in biographies of 18th and 19th century numismatists, and his work with original sources has solved many numismatic mysteries. In The American Journal of Numismatics, he recently co-authored the first monograph critically to examine the facts about the 1792 half disme. A professor of non-profit studies at Grand Valley State University, in Michigan, Dr. Orosz belongs to the Numismatic Literary Guild and the Rittenhouse Society, and is a long-serving board member of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society. |
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Those interested in attending must RSVP by Monday, March 10th, 2008 to Megan Fenselau (212) 571-4470 ext 1311, |
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