. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. order of Congress, medals coninicmoratinc; local events, and medals and tokens delineating the histor\- of Presidential campaigns.'^ These promising beginnings came to a sudden end in 1893, \vhen numismatic exhibits were crowded out by the rapidly and \'igorously expanding natural history collections. At this time the entire nimiismatic collection was withdrawn from display and placed in storage. After his appointment as an aide in 1897, Paul Beckwith attempted to soKe tiic exhibit space problem b\' introducing the "use of upright cases
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. order of Congress, medals coninicmoratinc; local events, and medals and tokens delineating the histor\- of Presidential campaigns.'^ These promising beginnings came to a sudden end in 1893, \vhen numismatic exhibits were crowded out by the rapidly and \'igorously expanding natural history collections. At this time the entire nimiismatic collection was withdrawn from display and placed in storage. After his appointment as an aide in 1897, Paul Beckwith attempted to soKe tiic exhibit space problem b\' introducing the "use of upright cases with sloping diaphragms covered with oli\e-green \'elvet" ^'^ for coin display, but this was not completeK' success- ful. Only a fraction of the mmiismatic material could be displayed and most ol it remained in storage—a situation generally imchanged until 191-!—except for occasional temporary exhibits. Fig. 16.—P.^kTTERx Copper Cent. 179-. A new museum structure for natural history re- leased space in the old Arts and Industries Building and provided fresh opportimities for the development of exhibits. By 1914 Theodore T. Belote (appointed in 1909 as assistant curator in the Division of History) had completed a selection of coins and medals and they were placed on exhibit in the northwest court (fig. 128).^° More than 6,000 coins and medals were installed in 27 flattop cases, 8 of which were de\'oted to coins of the United States and its possessions, 11 to European countries, and 8 to .Xsia and .\frica. Colonial American and United States coins, Lnited States medals, and a series of "hard times" tokens were arranged in 12 historical and topical groupings. The foreign specimens were arranged alphabeticalh' according to the countries of each continent. The European countries display included a group of 314 Polish coins, a large series of English and Freucli historic medals, and a large set of fine Papal medals. Most of the other foreign medals came from th
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