Online Interviews and Presentations
David Fanning speaks on numismatic bibliographies with Lianna Spurrier on the NBS podcast BiblioTalk.
David Fanning on his new book, Ancient Coins in Early American Auctions, given at the 2020 Newman Numismatic Portal Symposium.
CoinWeek's interview with David about the sale of the John W. Adams Numismatic Library. July 11, 2018
CoinWeek's interview with David about the first published use of the dollar sign in numismatic literature. July 12, 2017
Numismatic Books Old and New with Dr. David Fanning. CoinWeek's podcast interview of David Fanning on the field of numismatic literature.
CoinWeek's video interview of David Fanning on the letters of infamous coin forger Thomas Wyatt being offered by Kolbe & Fanning at the 2016 World's Fair of Money, August 2016.
David Fanning on the Importance of Building a Numismatic Library, Coinweek, 2013
Articles
"Off the Shelf" by David F. Fanning, regularly published in The Asylum. Winner of the "Best Column: Small Publications" award from the Numismatic Literary Guild in 2015 and 2017.
"Top 10 American Numismatic Books of the 19th Century."
By David F. Fanning
Winner of the American Numismatic Association's Heath Literary Award, 2012. Published in The Numismatist, February 2012. Feature article on 19th-century American numismatic books, giving my picks for the most significant works published. Reproduced courtesy of The Numismatist, official publication of the American Numismatic Association (www.money.org).
Reminiscences of a Numismatic Bookseller
George Kolbe's "Reminiscences of a Numismatic Bookseller #5", The Asylum vol 34 no 2.
George Kolbe's "Reminiscences of a Numismatic Bookseller #4", The Asylum vol 32 no 1.
Reminiscences of a Numismatic Bookseller 1
By George F. Kolbe
Published in The Asylum, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jan.-March 2013), Quarterly Journal of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society (coinbooks.org). George Kolbe reminisces about his passion for collecting and selling numismatic literature with excerpts from his recent book The Reference Library of a Numismatic Bookseller.
The Numismatic Bookseller
The Numismatic Bookseller #53 Winter 2016, includes George F. Kolbe's "Reminiscences of a Numismatic Bookseller #4", originally published in The Asylum.
The Numismatic Bookseller #52 Autumn 2015, includes George F. Kolbe's "Reminiscences of a Numismatic Bookseller #2", originally published in The Asylum.
The Numismatic Bookseller #51 Summer 2015.
The Numismatic Bookseller #50 Spring 2015, includes George F. Kolbe's "Reminiscences of a Numismatic Bookseller #1", originally published in The Asylum.
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"Top 10 American Numismatic Books of the 19th Century."
By David F. Fanning
Winner of an ANA Heath Literary Award in 2012. Published in The Numismatist, February 2012. Feature article on 19th-century American numismatic books, giving my picks for the most significant works published. Reproduced courtesy of THE NUMISMATIST, official publication of the American Numismatic Association (www.money.org). Awarded Heath Literary Award.
"Numismatic Who's Who: George F. Kolbe," CoinsWeekly.com.
"Vendor finds money in books about coins" by Joe Blundo in The Columbus Dispatch, Sunday, January 17, 2016.
Editor's Q&A by Steve Roach, Coin World December 2015.
David Fanning answers a few questions about his start in numismatic literature
Large Paper Attinelli Sighting in Boston
by George F. Kolbe, published in The Asylum.
An exciting discovery at the Boston Public Library.
A Few Notes on Catherine Eagleton’s Numismatic Chronicle Article on the Continental Dollar
by David F. Fanning
A refutation of Catherine Eagleton’s “Collecting America: Sarah Sophia Banks and the ‘Continental Dollar’ of 1776.”
The Tale of the Tape: a book, a blurb and a buskin.
By George Kolbe
Published in The Numismatist, Volume 127, No. 1, (January 2014). An account of the endorsements and personalities complicating the 1963 publication of one of the hobby's most respected tomes: Counterfeit, Mis-Struck, and Unofficial U.S. Coins, by Don Taxay.
Godfather to All Monkeys: Martin Folkes and His 1756 Library Sale
By George Kolbe
Published in The Asylum, Vol. 32, No. 2, (April-June 2014), Quarterly Journal of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society (coinbooks.org). A listing, with commentary, of the many works on numismatics (over 300) sold in the forty-one day auction sale of the extensive library formed by the famous English numismatist, antiquary, mathematician, and astronomer.
"Coinage from the Dawn of Islam."
By David F. Fanning
Originally published in The Numismatist, Vol. 125, No. 10 (October 2012), pp. 49-54. Feature article on Islamic coinages through the 'Abassid revolution, covering Arab-Sasanian, Arab-Byzantine and Umayyad issues. Reproduced courtesy of THE NUMISMATIST, official publication of the American Numismatic Association (www.money.org).