Post a great picture of a famous numismatist...
MrEureka
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Post a great picture of a famous numismatist, living or dead.
I'll start with this photo of Walter Breen. (No Breen bashing, please. We've been through that before.)
I'll start with this photo of Walter Breen. (No Breen bashing, please. We've been through that before.)
Andy Lustig
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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Eric Newman and his wife. They are each alive and pushing 100 years old.......easily the greatest numismatist alive today and arguably ever.
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
I use to hustle for him at coin shows when I was 19-20 years old.
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
Louis Elisaberg
see her Icon for a picture.
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I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
Lighten up and go and study Mark Twain.
The JRCS and Early United States Dimes 1796-1837 authors:
Russell J. Logan, David J. Davis, William J. Subjack, Allen F. Lovejoy, John W. McCloskey
David Akers stared collecting coins in 1949. After graduating from Notre Dame, obtaining a Masters degree in mathematics from Oregon State, and serving as a U.S. Army combat artillery officer in Viet Nam, David became a full time coin dealer in 1971. He was President of one of the largest and most influential dealerships of the 1970s and 1980s, Paramount International Coin Corp
Between 1975 and 1982, David Akers published a six volume analysis of U.S. gold coins that is considered one of the key references for the market. He conducted numerous very important auctions, including the three part 1997-99 sale of the legendary John J. Pittman collection. He is one of only two dealers to ever receive all three of the Professional Numismatists Guild's three top honors: the Robert Friedberg Literary award, the Abe Kosoff Founders award, and the PNG Lifetime Achievement award. David Akers is considered one of the top rare gold experts of all-time.
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
<< <i>Who is that? >>
Joseph N.T. Levick
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
B. Max Mehl
I don't have a copy of it, but maybe 20-ish years ago there was a series of auctions named 'Breen'. This was before TSHTF regarding him. I don't remember why he had his name associated with these auctions, but the picture they had of him was impressive. A head shot, just about profile, wild beard and long grey hair in a ponytail. He reaqlly looked like a genius wild man, and I guess he was.
John Work Garrett
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
Drunner
(sorry, a rather low-brow diversion from my normal Doily advertising!)
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Father Guido Sarducci?
<< <i>Anyone recognize this well known coin maven?
Gollum?
Prodigious numismatic writer and cataloguer.
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Mayer Rothschild. The most successful coin dealer of all time. No one else comes close.
OK, so he made most of his money in banking, but he started off selling rare coins to German princes. I guess some of them bought on credit.
CG