Are Dean Tavenner and Roger Bryant still in the coin biz?

gsaguy

Just wondering......haven't seen them in years.

GSAGUY

ArtR

Gsaguy:
I can't really say on Roger Bryant, but as far as I know Dean Tavenner has dropped out, or and this is HEAR SAY, forced out. It is a shame as the man is a world of knowledge when it comes to Morgan Dollars, and he was always willing to share this knowlege.

lonn

Just curious...how do you get "forced out" of the coin business?

braddick

Lon, the "Coin Business" as large as it appears to be is truly made up of a network of Dealers who live breath and die by their individual and Company reputations.
If it becomes soiled to the point where it is incapable of recovery that Dealer is, in essence, forced out of the business.

MadMonk

Yep, then they become graders!

Julian

Roger is not in the coin business any longer. Dean may be associated with Hannes Tulving.

Mark

If I am thinking of the right Roger Bryant (active in FUN and perhaps some silver dollar organization?) he is, indeed, no longer in coins. He makes a good living selling Lionel trains in Gainesville Florida. He's a major wholesaler for Lionel and also has a large mail order retail business and a small retail storefront business. Whenever I go to his store he tells me what a much better investment trains are than coins. I simply . A nice fellow. I enjoy buying a train or two from him.

Mark

homerunhall

Dean Tavenner has been selling stamps for the past few years. He's living in Southern California.

cupronik

Actually, Dean Tavenner is currently living in Missoula, Montana.
He's buying and selling stamps while working out of a local coin
shop (Treasure Coins.)

I remember mint state Morgan and Peace Dollars ruled the coin
market from the late 1970's throughout the 1980's. Wayne
Miller's book "An Analysis of Morgan & Peace Dollars" made
quite an impression on me when I acquired it back in the Spring
of 1977.

What these Montana dealers (John Love, Dean Tavenner, Don Harris,
Wayne Miller, John Diekhans, Bruce Anderson, etc.) saw back
in the early 1960's-on in terms of quantity and quality of
silver dollars is certainly stuff of legend today. And they probably
thought, "It's just another deal" (at the time.)

gsaguy

Thanks all for both the posts and the PM's about Dean and Roger.

I last saw Roger in the late 1980's and at that time he was also collecting/dealing Lionel trains. And yes, he was very active in promoting the FUN Show.

Dean actually sold me my first beautifully toned PCGS-certified Morgan at a Heritage show in Dallas in the late 80's. It was an 1882-S that I owned for many years and then let Andy Kimmel talk me out of. It's one of those coins you wish you'd never let get away. Perhaps I'll have the opportunity to buy it again some day.

GSAGUY

paigowjohnny

Some good stories by and about Dean in John Highfill's (another name that fell off the radar scope) silver dollar encyclopaedia.