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Who is the "Walter Breen" of our current day?

braddickbraddick Posts: 23,974 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Anyone write and research as much as he did? Or, has just about everything that could be discovered, been discovered and commented on?

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  • morganbarbermorganbarber Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭
    There is no Walter Breen today. The next one is JD4Science.
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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,364 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Q. David Bowers

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  • truthtellertruthteller Posts: 1,240 ✭✭
    UHhh? Do you mean child molester or numismatic genius?



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  • agentjim007agentjim007 Posts: 6,256 ✭

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    The new Walter Breen.....The Coin Doctor.
  • MastaHankyMastaHanky Posts: 933 ✭
    Lately it's been Jeffrey Jones and Pee Wee Herman.
  • GerryGerry Posts: 456 ✭
    David Lange gets my vote
  • Coin FinderCoin Finder Posts: 7,163 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think coins have become so specialized that their are experts in different specific fields that know more than Walter did then. I cannot think of anyone alive that has had the volume of knowlege as a whole as Walter did. Walter made many trips to the US Mint Achives and had a photographic memory so I am told.

    I would like it if the experts in their respective classes put together a encyclopedia of coins for all of us to use. Or at the very least comments on the original Breen tome like Mark B did with the early large cents.

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  • MarkMark Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Assuming you mean numismatic researcher as opposed to Breen's less lovely traits, I think that for serious research about the history of U.S. coins no one can hold a candle to R.W. Julian. I think Julian is currently the best at digging information out of the national archives, Library of Congress. etc. I wish he would put together a volume of his collected writings--I think that such a book would be fascinating.

    David Bowers is the best ever when it comes to popular writing that has some relationship to numismatics and is surely high on the list when it comes to writing about coins and varieties.

    Mark
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    I would have to second Mark's nomination. R W Julian is a fantastic researcher and author. There are others in his class but they tend to be much more specialized while Jullan's writing and research covers a wide range of subjects.
  • nuckleheadnucklehead Posts: 1,500 ✭
    I'm a huge fan of Scott Travers and Kenneth Bressett (whom I recently met a few weeks ago, great guy).
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  • MikeinTylerMikeinTyler Posts: 73 ✭✭
    UHhh? Do you mean child molester or numismatic genius?

    I would say either Julian or Bowers for the second part of the question and Jacko for the first.

    Mike
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  • eminememinem Posts: 258
    Why it's Pat Braddick of course!!
  • ZerbeZerbe Posts: 587 ✭✭
    A few dealers have mentioned Steve Contursi as a numismatic genius, in some areas.imageimageimage
  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    I also like R.W. Julian's work!

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    I think its Bowers hands down.

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