PrivateMintNews v4 is up - thanks to AI!
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It's hard to believe my PrivateMintNews.com effort has been ongoing since 2019 with now 4 iterations of the website, 1 book, and 2 presentations. v4 is also the first version of the site that contains articles from the 3 previous versions, which were never unified before. Hopefully with AI, this will be much easier to maintain going forward!
You can see the new site here. Let me know what you think!
Screenshots of the old sites are on the about page. This site has gone through 4 major platform overhauls including Hugo (static site generator), Medium, MkDocs, and now Ai-driven Astro. The first two were difficult to maintain. v3 was easy to maintain but had a very simple theme.
https://privatemintnews.com/resources/about-us/ (includes screenshots of previous versions)
AI even reminded me I have this Gallery Mint Museum book as unfinished business!
May 2019: Draft of Gallery Mint Museum selections are made available to select parties for review but is too large at 160MB.
Here's the 77-page book which kicked this off in May 2019.
https://privatemintnews.com/books/privatemintnews-book-bolen-pynchon-house.pdf
How many people are using AI for their websites now 
The content covers tokens, medals, so-called dollars and private patterns. Here's one that's mentioned which I acquired from Al, whose collection is listed on the site here:
https://privatemintnews.com/articles/so-called-dollars_the-keets-collection/
Comments
Congrats, John!
Your latest version looks great!
Keep the articles coming!
Thanks Mike!
It really is a labor of love and a treat to be able to spend some time on it.
It would be great to add more articles, presentations, and books to it! Fingers crossed!
This is incredible, John. Nice work. Hopefully, you can branch out and cover civil war tokens, too.
Good luck
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Thanks @DCW ! It would be great to cover CWTs! A reason for these particular articles were to document discoveries and unique information. I seem to come across that information less for CWTs, but will keep looking!
Nice work !
He sure had some beautiful pieces.....
Nice site and photos.
Don't forget to post here, too! We miss your enthusiasm for exonumia.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."