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Incredibly stupid question about the job titles at Heritage

LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
This is really a stupid question, but I feel a need to ask it because I noticed it in a few catalogs. In each Heritage catalog, the have two pages with pictures and bios of the people who wrote or otherwise worked on that catalog. Each of the people listed has the title of "cataloger", and one person has the title of "senior cataloger". I assume the senior cataloger is the head honcho. However, only one of the people listed has the title of "numismatist and catatloger". Does anyone know what the difference is between a plain old cataloger, and a "numismatist and cataloger"?

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  • ERER Posts: 7,345
    The head honcho is the "Chief Cataloger", Mark Van Winkle.
    Next is the "Senior Cataloger", Mark Borckardt.
  • RELLARELLA Posts: 961 ✭✭✭
    The Senior Numismatist title held by the one member of the catalog staff is a title that encompasses an additional position and other duties aside from catalog work. The Chief Cataloger is the head honcho, and the Senior Cataloger and Catalog Production Manager both have certain attitional duties above and beyond day-to-day catalog work.

    Realistically, each and every member of the catalog staff at Heritage is one heck of a numismatist...no matter what title they hold.

    RELLA
    Do not fall into the error of the artisan
    who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
    while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
    twenty times.
  • coinguy1coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭


    << <i> Does anyone know what the difference is between a plain old cataloger, and a "numismatist and cataloger"? >>

    I would guess that both are numismatists, but perhaps the "numismatist and cataloger" does things other than catalog (sales? purchasing?) and the "cataloger" does only that?

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