Here's an article by the Times on his life and death, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/...s.html?_r=0. Hard to believe he was 102 in that picture.
I just bought a coin a couple of weeks ago from maybe the last auction of his collection. It's a lightly circulated early half. When I received the coin, it came with a bit of exonumia- the original paper envelope Mr. Newman had the coin in.

I just bought a coin a couple of weeks ago from maybe the last auction of his collection. It's a lightly circulated early half. When I received the coin, it came with a bit of exonumia- the original paper envelope Mr. Newman had the coin in.

























