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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2904652, member: 42773&quot;]At 11 I attended a lecture entitled “Colonial Williamsburg’s Numismatic Collection,” given by Erik Goldstein, curator of coins and guns (can you think of a better job?)&nbsp; at Colonial Williamsburg. If you’re not familiar with Colonial Williamsburg, it’s a reenactment of an American colonial town, of astonishing scope and detail. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Williamsburg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Williamsburg" rel="nofollow">Read it about on wiki here</a>. Our family has visited several times, and we’ve always enjoyed ourselves and learned a lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>The last time we were there, I found this little book in the gift shop...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://s8.postimg.org/su2585hhx/book.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This isn’t simply an overview of early American coinage, but a catalog of a small collection on display at the nearby Rockefeller Library. The display consists mostly of world trade coins from the collection of Joseph R. Lasser, and some coins found at archaeological digs in the area...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://s8.postimg.org/i8i9w5b6d/book2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So when I found this book in the gift shop, I decided to drop in on the Rockefeller Library and take a look-see. (This was a few years ago.) It turns out the collection had been put in storage at the museum due to a construction project, so I walked over to the museum and asked to see it nonetheless. The receptionist informed me that viewings were by appointment only and I could write to the curator and apply to see the coins. She then had a security guard show me to the door.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://s8.postimg.org/tpymndlyt/ask.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, here was this same curator at the Baltimore Show giving a lecture on the coins I had wanted to see, and he came with some very exciting news.</p><p><br /></p><p>It turns out that the Lasser Collection is much, much larger than you might expect from perusing that little pamphlet of a catalog. In fact, Lasser collected many thousands of world and early American coins. <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=273382" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=273382" rel="nofollow">You can read a brief biography at CNG here</a>. Colonial Wiliamsburg is now in the process of building a numismatic museum dedicated to displaying not only his collection, but the coins found in surrounding archeological digs as well. The new museum is slated to open in about 2 1/2 years, and will also have a working forge and mint, in keeping with the tradition of detailed reenactments at Colonial Williamsburg.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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