AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NUMISMATICS
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The One Hundred Greatest Items Of United States Numismatic Literature Rank: Number 11
Clain-Stefanelli 350, Davis 21, Grierson page 16, Sigler 74
Predating The Numismatist (#3) by 22 years, the AJN is sometimes overlooked as the journal of record for the post-Civil War period. Confusing the issue somewhat is the chronology of the ANS publications. In 1920 the ANS began a series of specialized Numismatic Notes And Monographs which survives to this today, the latest installment (no. 176 in the series), on the topic of John Law and Mississippi system, being contributed by our own John Adams. In 1924, the AJN closed shop in order to focus more intently on the Notes series. The ANS reinstituted the AJN in 1989 with the launch of the American Journal Of Numismatics: Second Series (#105 in our survey), an annual peer reviewed volume with occasional American content that consistently achieves a high standard. Unlike The Numismatist, the first volume of the first series isn’t the most desired – that honor goes to the third volume, which contains one of the earliest photographic plates in American numismatics, the cents of 1793, credited to Levick and Crosby (this plate is discussed in detail in America’s Large Cent, ANS COAC Proceedings #12). The earliest known photograph of the first Mint is also plated in volume three.
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Monthly Editions
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American Numismatic and Archæological Society. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NUMISMATICS.
New York, NY: May, 1866 - April, 1870
Volumes 1 - 4
Octavo: 27.5 x 18 cm
Softbound: Printed wrappers
Quarterly Editions
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Boston Numismatic Society; American Numismatic Society. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NUMISMATICS.
Boston, MA; New York, NY: July, 1870 - October, 1912
Volumes 5 - 46
Octavo: 27.5 x 18 cm
Softbound: Printed wrappers
Yearly Editions
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American Numismatic Society. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NUMISMATICS.
New York, NY: 1913 - 1924
Volumes 47 - 53
Octavo: 28 x 22 cm
Softbound: Printed wrappers
1965 Reprint
New York, NY: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965
Volumes 1 - 53
Octavo: 27.5 x 18 cm
Softbound: Printed card covers