Las Vegas Numismatic Society Records (1963-1974) consist of receipts, membership lists, deposit slips, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, newsletters, and memos. Also included are brochures, newsletters, and postcards from the Sahara Hotel where the Society's first conference was held in 1963. There is a Guide to Personnel and a Service Directory from the Clark County, Nevada School District. Publications from the Nevada Test Site (NTS), Reynolds Electric ad Engineering Company (REECo), and Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, Inc. (EGG) contain references to the donor, Carl G. Taylor.
Las Vegas Numismatic Society Records (1963-1974) consist of receipts, membership lists, deposit slips, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, newsletters, and memos. Also included are brochures, newsletters, and postcards from the Sahara Hotel where the Society's first conference was held in 1963. There is a Guide to Personnel and a Service Directory from the Clark County, Nevada School District. Publications from the Nevada Test Site, Reynolds Electric ad Engineering Company (ReeCo), and Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, Inc. (EGG) contain references to the donor Carl G. Taylor.
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Material is in alphabetical order.
The Las Vegas Numismatic Society (LVNS) focused on the collecting and selling of rare coins and precious metals. The first annual Coin Show was held at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1963. Since that year, the event has continued to draw those interested in purchasing rare and historical coins, as well as those committed to preserving or restoring metal-based currency systems, notably silver. In addition to the annual Coin Show, the Las Vegas Numismatic Society has also been politically involved with local and national officials regarding numismatic areas of concern.
The materials were donated in 1987 by Carl G. Taylor; accession number 87-41.
Material was processed by UNLV Special Collections staff in 1987. In 2014, as part of a legacy finding aid conversion project, Ian M. Baldwin brought the collection up to current professional standards. In 2017 Joyce Moore revised and enhanced the collection and published the ArchivesSpace.