Adams, Edgar Holmes, 1868-1940

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Edgar H. Adams (1868-1940) of Bayville, Oyster Bay, and Brooklyn, New York, was a numismatic scholar, author, and collector who produced, among other works, reference guides to territorial and private gold coins. He also coauthored, with William H. Woodin, the book United States Pattern, Trial, and Experimental Pieces, a standard reference work on pattern coins. He served as editor of The Numismatist, the monthly journal of the American Numismatic Association, wrote a numismatic column for the New York Sun newspaper, and was a co-founder of the New York Numismatic Club (1908).
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referencedIn Howland Wood personal correspondence American Numismatic Society
referencedIn Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918. Lucretia R. Garfield letter to Edgar Adams, 1889 October 16. Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library
creatorOf Edgar H. Adams notebooks American Numismatic Society

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Birth 1868-04-07

Death 1940-05-05

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