Coins, Currency, and Medals

The museum possesses one of the largest and most diverse numismatic collections in the world. Its diverse holdings represent every inhabited continent and span more than three millennia. The collection includes coins, paper money, medals, tokens, commodity and alternative currencies, coin dies, printing plates, scales and weights, financial documents and apparatuses, credit cards, and objects that reflect established and emerging digital monetary technologies worldwide.

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1976-09-19
writer
Midura, Edmund
original artist
Gasparro, Frank
ID Number
2009.0005.031
catalog number
2009.0005.031
accession number
2009.0005
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1977
depicted (sitter),United States 31rst Mint; Director, 1969-1977
Brooks, Mary
depicted (sitter)
Gasparro, Frank
maker
Gasparro, Frank
author
Ganz, David L.
ID Number
2009.0005.033
catalog number
2009.0005.033
accession number
2009.0005
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1978-05
original artist
Gasparro, Frank
ID Number
2009.0005.034
catalog number
2009.0005.034
accession number
2009.0005
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
ca 1990
designer
Gasparro, Frank
ID Number
2009.0005.108
accession number
2009.0005
catalog number
2009.0005.108
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1990-12-12
Associated Name
Gasparro, Frank
journalist
Gilkes, Paul A.
ID Number
2009.0005.030
catalog number
2009.0005.030
accession number
2009.0005
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1978-05
Associated Name
Ganz, David L.
photographer
Stevens, Larry
author
Ganz, David L.
original artist
Gasparro, Frank
photographer
Stevens, Larry
ID Number
2009.0005.029
catalog number
2009.0005.029
accession number
2009.0005
This front page of Coin Worldstill has the mailing label that addressed the subscription to Frank Gasparro's home. Gasparro preferred his Flowing Hair Liberty design to the Susan B Anthony, but both were Gasparro's designs.
Description (Brief)
This front page of Coin Worldstill has the mailing label that addressed the subscription to Frank Gasparro's home. Gasparro preferred his Flowing Hair Liberty design to the Susan B Anthony, but both were Gasparro's designs. When this article asked readers to vote, "Liberty or Susan B. ? Which do you prefer," Coin World readers voted for the beautiful coin with the allegorical imagery of Lady Liberty. Befitting the 1970s focus on women's liberation, congress chose an image of Susan B. Anthony, an actual figure from American history. The Susan B. Anthony coin was the first American woman on an American coin.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1978-05-31
original artist
Gasparro, Frank
ID Number
2009.0005.032
catalog number
2009.0005.032
accession number
2009.0005

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