Story of moving a collection of 17,000 large pieces from Nevada to New York

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) was able to purchase most of the archives of the Medallic Art Company (MACO), which went bankrupt in 2016. MACO, which began in 1907, was one of the United States’ most prolific private mints. The archives consisted of dies, hubs, galvanos, die shells and more … 50,000 items in all. It was a huge amount in volume and weight. The ANS needed to organize it, then move most of it from MACO’s plant in Nevada, to ANS’s home in New York.

Earlier, ANS was able to move papers and medals to their HQ in NYC. Medalcraft Inc. helped by moving the dies and hubs to their facility in Wisconsin and storing them for ANS. This left a couple hundred boxes of galvanos and die shells that needed to be moved to NYC. A galvano is a larger than life model made of metal of one side of a coin or medal, that is used for mounting into a reduction engraving machine in the die production process. A die shell is a 1-to-1 metal relief impressed from the die itself.

The three links below are for a 3-part series on the massive move of galvanos and die shells from Nevada to ANS in NYC. Enjoy!

http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/mound/

http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/mound-house-ii/

http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/mound-house-iii/

Cal

 

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That's an insane amount of coins. And I thought taking up a 32 gallon bin was something.

 

Thanks for posting this. I've always been a big fan of medals produced by the Medallic Art Company of New York, and I have quite a few in my medals collection.

 

Amazing! Thanks for letting us know about this, @calcol !!

 

They made some great stuff. I have several bronze plaques they made.

 

great story