Newman Grant Recipients Selected for 2025

The Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society (EPNNES) has announced its 2025 set of Newman Grants. Awarded annually, these grants financially assist numismatic organizations and authors who are pursuing original research. The funds can be used to help cover the cost of travel, photography, and graphic arts services. This year’s recipients are Greg Bennick, John Frost, Kent Halland, Pam Herrick, and Patrick McMahon.

In an effort to preserve the voices of current numismatists and educate future collectors, Bennick will conduct and document oral history interviews of prominent numismatists. Frost plans to travel to San Bruno, California, to work with U.S. Mint material at the National Archives in preparation for a second edition of his book Double Dimes—The United States Twenty-Cent Piece. Halland will research U.S. postal notes. Herrick will manage the digitization of the Gilroy Roberts archive at the Community College of Philadelphia with a focus on the Roberts plaster casts. Finally, McMahon will conduct research on the scrapbooks of one of the earliest female American numismatists, Rebecca Salisbury, at Yale University.

A version of this article appears in the July 2025 issue of The Numismatist (money.org).