During the year, the library had personnel and procedural changes which will have a positive affect on immediate and long-term operations. Shortly after the Society's 1997 annual meeting Tamara Fultz joined the staff as Assistant Librarian. In her new position, Ms. Fultz is responsible for the cataloguing of all materials acquired by the library. Ms. Fultz has a B.A. in Classical Languages from Pennsylvania State University, an M.S. in Information Studies from Drexel University, and an M.A. in Latin from Indiana University. She comes to us from the Brooklyn Historical Society, where she was the Catalogue Librarian, but has also been formerly employed by the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Lilly Library at Indiana University. Ms. Fultz reads ancient Greek, German, Italian, and Latin. Her language capabilities and cataloguing experience have been a great asset to the library over the past year.

A project which has kept the staff quite busy during the year is the conversion of the present card catalogue records to MARC tagged records. MARC is an acronym which stands for "Machine Readable Cataloguing" and is the standard format adopted by the library world. In November of 1997, a proposal was sent to eight vendors. From the replies received, Gaylord Information Systems of Liverpool, NY. was chosen. Gaylord is following a list of guidelines prepared by the library staff As Gaylord converts ANS records, they are being electronically transferred back to the Society for editing by the library staff The editing has been facilitated through the use of software developed by W. L. Hill Consulting, of Dallas, TX. 'When this project is completed, we expect to have the library's entire card catalogue accessible on the worldwide web. The conversion project has been made possible through the generosity of the Harry Bass Research Foundation and the late Harry W Bass, Jr.

The first of this year's noteworthy acquisitions was purchased at the George Kolbe auction of December 6, 1997, and brings the library a step closer to completing its set of the 12 volume corpus of Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich's collection. This is the Largest collection of Russian coins for the period 1682 to 1890. The volume acquired (fig. 53) is devoted to the coins of Peter I and covers the period from 1682 to 1710. It is one of the rarest in the set. There were to be four volumes devoted to Peter I, but volume 2, was the only one completed. Some 50 plates intended for volume 3, but not fully finished, were also produced. We have yet to acquire those and another volume devoted to the coins of Tsar Alexander III. In planning his great enterprise, Mikhailovich decided to begin with the most recent and easiest series and work backward. He enlisted the services of Christian Giel, M. Demmeni, and Aleksei Ilyin, three very distinguished numismatists. It was decided not to include the pre-Petrine coinage because Count Ivan Ivanovich Tolstoi was already at work on a 12 part series which would treat this material. The plates for the Mikhailovich volumes were produced by the Office for the Preparation of Government Papers, the Imperial Russian counterpart to the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Examples of their work include fig. 54, a plate showing the coins of Peter I, and fig. 55, the volume frontispiece, a picture of the Tsar.

The Library's set of the Mikhailovich collection is a mixed set, part of which was donated by Archer M. Huntington. Another part is from the library of David M. Bullowa and was donated to the library by Catherine BullowaMoore. The Bullowa library copies are truly exquisite. They were originally presented by Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich to his uncle Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, and all bear the presentation number 5. Each volume has a brown, full-leather binding and each is adorned with the monogram BA (fig. 56), representing the Cyrillic VA, Vladimir Alexandrovich.

Also acquired during the year was a rather small, but rare item received as part of a donation from the Harry Bass Research Foundation. It is entitled The Coin Chart Manual and was issued by a Win. R. Paddock & Co. of Cincinnati, OH (fig. 57). It bears no date of publication, but a date may well have appeared on the missing front cover. In checking our card catalogue, it was found that the library had only a Paddock's Bank Mirror issued by William Paddock & Bros. and bearing the date April 1, 1859 (fig. 58). Surprisingly, none of Paddock's publications are mentioned in William Dillistin's Bank Note Reporters and Counterfeit Detectors, 1826-1866 Dillistin's monograph, published by this Society in 1949, offers a thorough survey of this type of publication which was used by businessmen and merchants to identify spurious notes. However, Dillistin does mention a Gold and Silver Coin Chart Manual by John Dye (fig. 59), published in Cincinnati during 1854. In examining the contents of this 50 page manual, it was found to be virtually identical to that of Paddock. Paddock's manual varies only in that it lacks page numbering on pages 45 to 50 and includes a four page broken bank note list at the end, rather than the four pages of advertisement found in Dye.

This circumstance posed two questions. Was there some sort of business relationship between Dye and Paddock, or was Paddock merely copying the work of an already well established publisher. With the few rare detectors and manuals issued by both men that the library has, we can suggest an answer. For this, we must turn our attention to the addresses which appear on these publications as Dye changed addresses sometime between June 1853 and May 1854. In 1853 he was at the southeast corner of Third and Walnut Streets in Cincinnati (fig. 60) but in 1854 he opened an office in New York at 2 Maiden Lane and moved to a new Cincinnati location at 45 Third Street (fig. 59). An examination of Paddock's Bank Mirror for April 1859 (fig. 58) shows his address listed; as the southeast corner of Third and Walnut Streets, the very same location occupied by Dye in 1853. Given that Dye's Coin Chart Manual of 1854 and Paddock's undated Coin Chart Manual are virtually identical and given that Paddock in 1859 is located at the same address as Dye in 1853, it seems possible that the two men had worked out an arrangement whereby Paddock continued the publication of coin chart manuals and counterfeit detectors in Cincinnati as Dye gradually moved from west to east, establishing himself first in New York and later in Philadelphia.

A number of noteworthy publications in various categories were acquired by the library during the year.


ANCIENT

Hyla A. Troxell, Studies in the Macedonian Coinage of Alexander the Great (New York, 1997); Thomas Figueira, The Power of Money: Coinage and Politics the Athenian Empire (Philadelphia, 1998); Francois de Callatay, Recueil quantitatif des emissions monetaires hellenistiques (Wetteren, 1997); Brian Kritt, The Early Seleucid Mint of Susa (Lancaster, PA, 1997); Thomas Samuel Nelson Moorhead, "Coins from Coastal Palestine" (honors thesis for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983); Leandre Villaronga, Monedes de plata emporitanes dels segles V-IV aC (Barcelona, 1997); Pere Pau Ripolles and J. M. Abascal Palazon, Las monedas de la ciudad romana de Segobriga-Saelices, Cuenca (Barcelona/Madrid, 1996); Esteban Collantes Perez-Arda, Historia de las cecas de Hispania antigua (Madrid, 1997); Franco Chiesa, ed., La monetazione celtica Cisalpina (Locarno, 1996); Bernhard Overbeck, Keltisches Munzwesen in Altbayern (Aventinum, Germany, 1996); Zdenka Nemeskalova-Jiroudkova, Keltsky poklad ze stareho kolina (Prague, 1998); Musei Civici di Vicenza. Le monete romane imperiali da Augusto a Vitellio a cura di Armando Bernadelli, Giovanni Gorini, e Andrea Saccocci (Padua, 1998); Peter Kos, and Andrej Semrov, Zbirka Numizmaticnega Kabineta Narodnega Muzeja (The collection of the Numismatic Cabinet of the National Museum 2), Rimski novci in kontramarke iz 1. Stoletja (Roman Imperial coins and countermarks of the 1st century [Augustus-Traianus]) (Ljubljana, 1995); Adriano Savio, Katalog der alexandrinischen Munzen der Sammlung Dr. Christian Friedrich August Schledehaus im Kulturgeschichtlichen Museum Osnabruck. Band 3: Die Munzen des 3. Jahrhunderts, Septimius Severus-Domitius Domitianus (Bramsche, 1997); Rudolf Laser and Karlhorst Stribrny, eds., Fundmunzen der romischen Zeit in Deutschland. Abteilung IX, Sachsen, Abteilung XI, Brandenburg, Abteilung XII, Berlin, Abteilung XIV Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Berlin, 1997); Wayne G. Sayles, Ancient Coin Collecting 3, The Roman World-Politics and Propaganda (Iola, WI, 1997).

MEDIEVAL AND ISLAMIC

D. M. Metcalf, An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coin Finds, c.973-1086 (London/Oxford, 1998); N. J. Mayhew, ed., The Gros Tournois: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Oxford Symposium on Coinage and Monetary History (London/Paris/Oxford, 1997); D. M. Metcalf, The Silver Coinage of Cyprus (Nicosia, 1996); Brita Malmer, The Anglo-Scandinavian Coinage, c. 995-1020 (Stockholm, 1997); Giuseppe Ruotolo, Le zecche di Campobasso e Sansevero (1461-1463): Le monete del Conte Nicola II di Monforte (Termoli, 1997); Georges Depeyrot, Le numeraire merovingien: L'age de l'or. 2 vols. (Wetteren, Belgium, 1998); Georges Depeyrot, Le numeraire carolingien: corpus des monnaies. Deuxieme edition augmentee (Wetteren/Paris, 1998); Sylvie de Turckheim-Pey, Lejeton au Moyen Age: vers 1250-1498 (Paris, 1997); Moreno Sagramora, Monete di Treviso, 757-1519: Descrizione e storia delle monete Trevigiane dal Longobardo desiderio al dominio Veneziano, con un appendice sui sigilli (Treviso, 1997); John Davenport, The Daalders of the Dutch Feudal States and Others (Dallas, TX, 1997); Hans-Jorg Kellner, Die Munzgeschichte des Hochstifts Passau: Ein Katalog der Munzen und Medaillen (Stuttgart, 1997); Pervin T. Nasir, Rare Coins in the National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi (Karachi, 1997); Edhem Eldem, A 135 Year Old Treasure: Glimpses from the Past in the Ottoman Bank Archives (Istanbul, 1998); Stuart D. Sears, A Monetary History of Iraq and Iran, ca. CE 500 to 750, vol. 1 (A dissertation submitted to the University of Chicago) (Chicago, 1997); R. al-Ajjabi, Jama al-Maskukat al- Arabiyya bi-Ifriqiya, II (Tunis, 1996).

INDIAN AND EAST ASIAN

Amal Kumar Jha and Sanjay Garg, eds. Ex Moneta: Essays on Numismatics, History and Archaeology in Honour of Dr. David W MacDowall (New Delhi, 1998); K. Ganesh, and Dr. Girijapathy, The Coins of the Vijayanagar Empire (Bangalore, 1997); Ramasubbu Krishnamurthy, Sangam Age Tamil Coins (Madras, 1997); Kishore Jhunjhunwalla, Indian Paper Money since 1950 (Bombay, 1997); K. Ganesh and Dr. Girijapathy, The Coins of the Hoysalas (Bangalore, 1998); Beijing Museum of Ancient Coins, Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Cash Coins and Price Guide (Beijing, 1997); John E. Sandrock, Copper Cash and Silver Taels: The Money of Manchu China (Baltimore, MD, 1995).

MEDALS, TOKENS, DECORATIONS, AND PAPER MONEY

Philippe Escande, Les medailles d Algerie L histoire de l Algerie de 1830 1962 raco ntee par les medailles (Helette, France, 1996); Stephen K. Scher, The Proud Republic: Dutch Medals of the Golden Age, photography by John Bigelow Taylor (New York, 1997); Wolfgang Steguweit, ed., Medaillenkunst in Deutschland von der Renaissance bis zur Gegen wart: Themen, Projekte, Forschungsergebnisse (Berlin, 1997); Ulf Drager, Deutsche Kunstmedaillen des 20. Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1996); Lee E. Bishop, Jr., and J. Robert Elliott, II, American Society Medals: An Identifi cation Guide (Santa Monica, 1998); Frederic L. Borch and William R. Westlake, For Heroic or Meritorious Achievement: The American Bronze Star Medal Award to United Kingdom and Commonwealth Forces for the Korean War (Tempe, AZ, 1995); John M. Coffee, Jr., and Harold V. Ford, eds., The Atwood-Coffee Catalogue of United States and Canadian Transportation Tokens, 5th ed. (Boston, 1996); Russell Rulau, Hard Times Tokens: A Complete Catalog of the Coin Substitutes and Satirical Scrip of the Jacksonian Period, 1833-1844, 6th ed. (Iola, WI, 1996); Paul A. Cunningham, Military Tokens of the United States, vol. 2, Overseas Issues (Tecumseh, MI, 1998); Frovin Sieg, Sieg's Seddelkatalog Danmark, 1695-1997 (Aalborg, 1997); Julijan Dobrinic, Corpus Notarum Pecuniariarum Fluminense: Rijecki novci (Rijeka, 1997); Stephen M. Sullivan, U. S. Error Note Encyclopedia (Melbourne, FL, 1997); Charlton Standard Catalogue of Canadian Government Paper Money, 10th ed. (W. K. Cross, Toronto, 1997).

MODERN

Stephan Sombart, Franciae 4: Catalogue des monnaies royales francaises de Francois Ier a Henri IV, 1540-1610 (Paris, 1997); Guvendik Fisekcioglu, Madeni paralarimiz, Thrkish Republic Coins (Istanbul, 1997); Jens Pilegaard and R. Juul Boerge, eds., Sieg's montkatalog 1998 (Aalborg, 1997); Jenny E. Hollman, Munzgeschichte des Herzogtums Sachsen-Hildburghausen, 1680 bis 18267 (Hildburghausen, 1994); Raul Gurdian, Contribucion al estudio de las monedas de Costa Rica: 100 anos del colon, 2nd ed. (San Jose, Costa Rica, 1996); Eduardo Carrion-Letort, Monedas ecuatorianas: Las monedas de la Republica, 1830-1997 (Quito, 1997); Hector Carlos Janson, La moneda circulante en el territorio Argentino, 1767-1998 (Buenos Alres, 1998); Chester L. Krause and Clifford Mishler, Standard Catalog of World Coins: Eighteenth Century, 1701-1800, 2nd ed. (lola, WI, 1997); Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 2nd ed. (lola, WI, 1998); Standard Catalog of World Coins (1901-Present) (W K. Cross, Iola, WI, 1998); Croatian National Bank, Numismatic Coins and Banknotes Issued by the Croatian National Bank (Zagreb, 1998); Fabio Gigante, Monete italiane dal 700 ad oggi. 6a edizione

GENERAL

C. E. V. Nixon and Colin E. Pitchfork, Catalogue of the Coins in the Macquarie University Museum of Ancient Cultures (Sydney, 1996). Tyll Kroha, Grosses Lexikon der Numismatik (Gutersloh, 1997); Christian E. Dekesel, Biblioteca Nummaria: Bibliography of 16th Century Numismatic Books (London/Crestline, CA, 1997);

UNITED STATES

Tony Carlotto, The Copper Coins of Vermont and Those Bearing the Vermont Name (Chelsea, MI, 1998); Robert W Miller, United States Half Eagle Gold Coins, 1795-1834 (Elmwood Park, NJ, 1997); John M. Kleeberg, ed., America's Large Cent (New York, 1998); Richard Doty, America's Money. America's Story (Iola, WI, 1998); Richard S. Yeoman, A Guide Book of United States Coins, 52nd ed., Kenneth Bressett, ed. (Sturtevant, WI, 1998); Shane M. Anderson, The Complete Lincoln Cent Encyclopedia (Iola, WI, 1996); James Wiles, The Kennedy Half Dollar: An Attribution and Pricing Guide (Savannah, GA, 1998).

On February 25, in conjunction with the "Day of the Etruscans" conference, the Librarian mounted an exhibition of works from the library's collection, 18th-20th centuries, dealing with Etruscan numismatics. Among the works exhibited were Joann Baptist Passeri's De nummi etruscis paestanorum (Pesara, 1748), P. Raffaele Garrucci's Le monete dell Italia antica (Rome, 1885), and Ernst J. Haeberlin's Aes Grave; Das Schwergeld Roms und Mittelitali ens (Frankfurt am Main, 1910).

In early May, the Library received six cartons of books from the Harry Bass Research Foundation. The Foundation had decided that its library should include only books which reflect the collecting interests of Harry W. Bass, Jr. Therefore, it donated some 100 works dealing with foreign, or ancient numismatics to the ANS Library. This donation and the funding of the conversion project mentioned earlier remind the Librarian of how much is owed to our late Council member and Chairman of the Library Committee, Harry W Bass, Jr., whose financial and moral support has meant so much to the library over the past three decades. Most of the library's advances during this period, whether in the areas of computerization, physical plant, or significant acquisitions, have been made possible through the generous support of Mr. Bass. His concern for this library, its staff, and its collection will be truly missed.
Accessions
Books 428
Pamphlets 261
Periodicals 1,559
Auction Catalogues 927
Fixed Price Lists 334

Activity
Materials Catalogued 2,912
Reference Inquiries 3,175