Edgar Adams
| File:E.H. Adams, New York Athletic Club, Plunge for Distance (Swimming and Diving event at the 1904 Olympics).jpg Adams diving in the plunge for distance at the 1904 Olympics. | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Edgar Holmes Adams | ||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | ||||||||||||||
| Born | April 7, 1868 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | May 5, 1940 (aged 72) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, diving | ||||||||||||||
| Club | New York Athletic Club | ||||||||||||||
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Edgar Holmes Adams (April 7, 1868 – May 5, 1940) was an American competition diver and swimmer, numismatic scholar, author, coin collector and dealer.[1][2]
Swimming
[edit | edit source]He represented the United States at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri, where he won a silver medal in the men's plunge for distance event, finishing behind compatriot William Dickey.[3] Competing in the swimming events at the 1904 Summer Olympics, he finished fourth in the 220-yard freestyle, 880-yard freestyle, and the 4×50-yard freestyle relay. He also competed in the one-mile freestyle but did not finish the race.
Numismatics
[edit | edit source]Adams was a prolific numismatic author who coauthored, with William H. Woodin, United States Pattern, Trial, and Experimental Pieces, but is probably best known for the reference volume Private Gold Coinages of California, 1849-1855: Its History and Its Issues, originally published serially (1911-1912) in the American Journal of Numismatics.[4]
He wrote a numismatics column for The Sun. Farran Zerbe brought him onto the staff of the American Numismatic Association journal The Numismatist in 1909, and the from 1912 to 1915 Adams served as editor of The Numismatist.[1][5]
He was inducted into the Numismatic Hall of Fame in 1969.
Publications by Adams
[edit | edit source]- Adams' Official Premium List of United States Private and Territorial Gold Coins. New York: Willett Press, 1909.
- Private Gold Coinage of California, 1849-55, Its History and Its Issues. New York, Edgar H. Adams, 1913.
- United States Pattern, Trial and Experimental Pieces. New York, American Numismatic Society, 1913.
- United States Store Cards. New York: E.H. Adams and W. Raymond, 1920.
References
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External links
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- 1868 births
- 1940 deaths
- American male freestyle swimmers
- Divers at the 1904 Summer Olympics
- American male divers
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in diving
- Olympic swimmers for the United States
- Swimmers at the 1904 Summer Olympics
- American numismatists
- American academic journal editors
- People from Bayville, New York
- Sportspeople from Nassau County, New York
- Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century American sportsmen