Finding Aid to the Numismatic Collection MS.531

Contributing Institution: Library and Archives at the Autry

Title: Numismatic Collection

source: Evans, Tom L., Mrs.

source: Hellman, Agnes Kremer

source: Newmark, Marco Ross

source: Newmark, Maurice Harris

Identifier/Call Number: MS.531

Physical Description: 0.25 Linear Feet (1 scrapbook)

Date (inclusive): 1854-1918

Abstract: This is a collection of currency and checks from 1854-1918 from the Canada, Germany, Haiti, Japan, Mexico, and the United States.

Language of Material: English .

Processed by Glenna Schroeder, circa 1977-1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 October 1, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).

Donations from Maurice Harris Newmark and Marco Ross Newmark, 1919 December 30; Mrs. Agnes Kremer Hellman, circa 1921; and Mrs. Tom L. Evans, 1974 February 21.

This is a collection of currency and checks from 1854-1918 from the Canada, Germany, Haiti, Japan, Mexico, and the United States.

Includes: Paper currency – 39 pieces total – including 26 pieces (U.S, Canada, Mexico, and Haiti) from M.H. and Marco Newmark Collection. 25¢ Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (Salt Lake City, 1870) $5.00 Northern Indiana Railroad Co. (1854) 2 Sacramento D.O. Mills & Co. Bankers Checks (1871, 1872) 2 Citizen's Bank, George W. Kidd & Co., Bankers, Nevada City, California checks 1862 - $500.00; 187? 1 Bank of Thomas Findley & Co., Grass Valley (1875) $3,000 The Bank of Nevada County check (1876) $120.00 Capital Savings Bank, Sacramento (1876) $292.50 Confederate States of America Bill (to be paid 2 years after peace between CSA and USA) $50.00 50¢ bill Johnson House – Alabama 25 centime bill – Haiti (1875) 25¢ Canada bill (1870) 1 peso – state of Chihuahua (1915) 50 centavos – state of Chihuahua (1914) 5 pesos – state of Chihuahua (1914) 1 peso – Mexico (1913) 1 peso – Mexico (1914) 1 peso – Mexico (1914) 5 pesos – state of Durango (1914) 1 peso – state of Jalisco (1914) 6 centavos – Mexican 5 centavos – Mexican 10 centavos – Mexican 5 pesos – El Estado de Sonora (1913) 1 peso – Estado de Mexico (1914) 10 centavos – Mexico (1914) 1 peso – Mexico (1914) 10 centavos – Japanese government 10 centavos – Mexican (1914) 5 pesos – Guadalajara (1914) 10 centavos – Mercantile Bank of Veracruz (1914) 50 centavos – State of Sonora (1914) 5 marks 2 marks – Berlin (1914) 50 pfennig – Stadt Neuwied (1918) 50 centimes – Treasury of the Army 10 sen – Japanese military currency

Numismatic Collection, 1854-1918, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.531; [folder number] [folder title][date].

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