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  • Early_Milled_Latin_America Early_Milled_Latin_America Posts: 6,425 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 8, 2025 2:06PM

    RIP...my condolences

  • tyler267tyler267 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭✭

    I'm sorry to hear of Martin's passing, my thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.

  • goldengolden Posts: 9,989 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sad news.

  • orevilleoreville Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 8, 2025 6:10PM

    @Maywood said:
    I pm'd with Martin and we discovered we grew up close to each other and went into some of the same local coin shops when we were children and young adults. His home in Middlefield, heart of the local Amish community, is about 15 miles due south of me. I wish I'd have known he was living there. This will sound strange, but although we never met and only knew each other casually here, his face looks familiar to me. Perhaps we passed on the street or somewhere in public and never knew it. He always struck me as a humble, unassuming gentleman.

    With each passing day and loss the World becomes a little less interesting. RIP.

    aside to @Oreville, did you ever stop into the Rascal House or the Euclid Tavern while you were in Cleveland??

    Absolutely. Also ate at the Last Moving Picture Company restaurant on Euclid Ave. i worked for the Glidden Paint Company which later merged as Glidden-Durkee at the old (later torn down) Union Commerce Building on Euclid and 9th Street. This is the area where I met Emery Norweb numerous times.

    A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!
  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 9, 2025 11:14AM

    Very sad to hear this. My condolences to his friends and family.

    We communicated via PMs and lived reasonably close. I wish I had the opportunity to meet him now.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,706 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’m very saddened to hear this. :(

  • TennesseeDaveTennesseeDave Posts: 4,809 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Another one of the great ones have left us way too early. Condolences go out to all family and friends.

    Trade $'s
  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 9, 2025 11:16AM

    A while back Martin mentioned he wanted to get his Libertas Americana tokens slabbed in PCGS multi-token holders. I'm glad he was able to do so!

    Read more on this forum thread:

    The Cardinal Libertas Americana Tokens of the US Centennial Collection




  • EDLEDL Posts: 63 ✭✭✭✭

    Met him at a show in Vegas many years ago when I was first starting out, he took an hour of his time to tell me cool coin stories and other tips in the industry. Great guy, RIP.

  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,527 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 9, 2025 10:01PM

    Terrible to hear this. He was a wonderful contributor to the numismatic community. I enjoyed taking in his Portraits of Liberty booklet that he mailed to me in August of 2011. :(

    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
    Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners. :smile:
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,276 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Met him once at a PCGS lunch and we chatted for a while. Really nice guy. Didn't really get to know him beyond that encounter. Sad news.

  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We can all aspire to lives lives so as to warrant thoughtful praises and well-wishes when we pass. There are very few on this planet that equal or come close to the qualities that made up Cardinal. He will be sorely missed not only to those who knew him intimately but also those he had an indirect influence on.

    peacockcoins

  • marcmoishmarcmoish Posts: 6,619 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow, sad news.
    Seems more often than not we hear someone we know well or know vaguely but in our circles so to say, and than poof.
    Here you have Martin at age 64, that's nuts.

    My condolences.

  • JohnFJohnF Posts: 335 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Too young! RIP Cardinal. :'(

    John Feigenbaum
    Whitman Brands: President/CEO (www.greysheet.com; www.whitman.com)
    PNG: Executive Director (www.pngdealers.org)
  • jedmjedm Posts: 3,162 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My condolences go out to his family and friends. A real loss to our community.

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