Additional Files from the Breen Library

Breen, Walter. ARCHIVAL MATERIALS FROM THE LIBRARY OF WALTER BREEN. A medium-size box of files, including: an original typewritten manuscript, with handwritten annotations, by Breen, variously titled “Walterings” and “How to Stay Ahead of the Coin Forgers”; original photographs of a Brasher doubloon (punch on wing); a photocopy of Breen’s annotations for revision of Fivaz and Stanton’s Cherrypicker’s Guide; correspondence, photographs, and photocopies from Weimar White about 1870s CC dollars; a draft of an unpublished survey of coin rarity scales by Breen; advertising material for Robert Bashlow’s restrikes of Confederate cents; a revision of “Coins, Currency and Economic History,” Breen’s ANA correspondence course; two black and white versions of the author’s photograph published in the Encyclopedia of United States Half Cents; 12 pages of original typewritten material on U.S. commemorative half dollars; Breen’s copy of his October 15, 1990 letter to Virginia Rice about her Riches of Coins project, with several pages of feedback, as well as a further multi-page printout dated May 2, 1991; materials for the ANA’s Intermediate Numismatic Correspondence Course packet (Breen wrote chapter 8), including his signed copy of the published book; his copy of The David Laties Newsletter (September 1962) featuring his article “Haunted Coins”; two copies of a booklist compiled for a 1990 ANA seminar on cherrypicking; correspondence with Herbert Hicks on Washington quarters; photocopies of early Breen working notes on colonial paper money; a printout draft of his article “How to Keep the I in Coin Game”; and a draft of his “Early American Tokens from Birmingham: Who, Where, Why?”; Breen’s copies of several monographs, including Noe’s 1920 Coin Hoards, G.P. Dyer’s 1986 Royal Mint, W.A.C. Newman’s 1953 British Coinage, the National Bank of Detroit’s guide to The Money Museum, Noe’s 1950 The Coinage of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the 1987 BHNC supplement to Overton; an unbound proof of Fivaz and Stanton’s Cherrypicker’s Guide; a draft printout of Doty’s “Early United States Copper Coinage: The English Connection”; et cetera. Materials vary in format and condition. Includes some notable material, especially Breen’s “Walterings” manuscript and his contributions to the ANA Correspondence Course.