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Courtesy of Roger Moore, Newman Portal has added a group of newsletters related to Virginia colonial coinage. Editor William Veach produced The Generation newsletter in the early 1990s and provided an overview in an August 1, 1990 launch letter: “The ‘Generation’ is a select group of variety set oriented collectors of the 1773 - Colonial Virginia copper Halfpenny. Our legal structure is that of a ‘phantom’ group, unregistered, unincorporated, yes even unfinanced. We pay no dues. We pay no taxes and we really answer to no one, except to ourselves.”

The second issue announced a circulation of 17, and content focused on the usual collector concerns: varieties, attribution, rarity, pricing, and the occasional oddball examples, such as counterstamped pieces. Most of the material for the newsletter was contributed by Veach himself, such as a census of I-A pattern pieces in the June 1993 issue. Veach produced eight issues from 1990 to 1993, and an attempted reboot in 2005 reveals an interesting tidbit: among the anonymous members of this group was Virginia governor Douglas Wilder, who was instrumental in promoting a 1992 resolution (House Joint Resolution No. 271) of the Virginia legislature honoring Eric P. Newman for his research in the field of Virginia numismatics.

Link to The Generation on Newman Portal: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/publisherdetail/531574
Link to “Eric P. Newman Honored by Virginia” in the January 1993 Virginia Numismatist: https://archive.org/details/VirginiaNumismatist1993to1994/page/n15/mode/2up?view=theater