. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. 10.—Numismatic Room in the new Mint Ijuildinp; in Pliiladclpliia, 1902 (from Annua! R,fnrt of the Diratnr nf I he Mint, 1902). operation soon clcvcloped Ijetwcuii Wormser and Bclote. In retrospect it is clear that one central idea i^uided Wormser in all his actions—to increase the size and importance of the national numismatic hold- inG;s through joint cH'orts until it would rank with sucli threat representati\e collections as those in London. Paris, and Berlin. He considered this as a mission ol the American Ximiismatic Association, de
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. 10.—Numismatic Room in the new Mint Ijuildinp; in Pliiladclpliia, 1902 (from Annua! R,fnrt of the Diratnr nf I he Mint, 1902). operation soon clcvcloped Ijetwcuii Wormser and Bclote. In retrospect it is clear that one central idea i^uided Wormser in all his actions—to increase the size and importance of the national numismatic hold- inG;s through joint cH'orts until it would rank with sucli threat representati\e collections as those in London. Paris, and Berlin. He considered this as a mission ol the American Ximiismatic Association, derixing irom its national character and in accord with the purpose of its federal incor|3oration. At the association's annual con\ention in 1925, a resolution was passed authoriziiit; the president to appoint three persons—preferably residents of the Washington, , area—as the " Smithsonian C'onimittee" which would cooperate with the Insti- tution on numismatic problems. The same resolution considered the establishment, through this committee, of a numismatic collection to be placed on loan exhibition at the Smithsonian. In 1927 an .\. collection was started by means of a fund donated by Robert P. King of Erie, Pennsyhania. It was exhibited at the Smithsonian in 1928. Throughout the depres- sion and until his death in 1940, Wormser continued to work at building up this loan collection. Since then it has continued to grow under the sponsorship of the At this writing plans are under way for the establishment of headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado. When this headquarters is es- tablished the entire .^. collection will be trans- ferred from the Smithsonian to that location. A major change took place in the Smithsonian numismatic collection in 1931 when it was mo\ed from its poorly lighted quarters (fig. 129) to a smaller biU much brighter area of the Arts and Industries Building (fig. 130) where it remained until its tr
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