PCGS announces three new inductees to the PCGS CoinFacts Coin Dealer Hall of Fame

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• Zoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 25, 2020 7:57AM edited September 25, 2020 8:00AM

  Congrats to all:

  • Bruce Amspacher, PCGS Co-Founder (1942-2006)
  • Greg Roberts, Stack's Bowers CEO
  • Catherine Bullowa-Moore, PNG Founding Member (1919-2017)

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• Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 25, 2020 8:59AM

  How nice

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 25, 2020 9:05AM

  Congratulations to the new members....Cheers, RickO

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• dbldie55 Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 25, 2020 10:45AM

  Very nice. Really missed not having the luncheon this summer.

  Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
  

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• johnny9434 Posts: 29,431 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 25, 2020 12:41PM

  Congrats to everyone

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• Zoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 25, 2020 5:43PM edited September 25, 2020 5:48PM

  Let's celebrate these dealers by posting some of their coins!

  The article on Bruce has some great recollections and well worth reading:

  Amspacher had many friends in the coin business. Following his death, several of his many friends at PCGS offered their thoughts about his life and his long-lasting imprint on the hobby and numismatic marketplace.

  Here's one:

  Van Simmons, Director, Collectors Universe, Inc. (parent company of PCGS) said:

  [Bruce Amspacher] was a consummate collector of just about everything that included medals, tokens, coins,

  Here's one of Bruce's coins. Just 4 of these are known to exist!

  

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• Lakesammman Posts: 17,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 25, 2020 5:57PM

  Congrats to all - I've only met Catherine and she was delightful!

  "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.

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• GoBust Posts: 605 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 25, 2020 6:24PM

  Congratulations Greg! Really strong leader and always willing to help!

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• cointime Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 25, 2020 11:46PM

  @BrettPCGS said:
  https://www.pcgs.com/news/three-iconic-coin-dealers-inducted-into-pcgs-coinfacts-coin-dealer-hall-of-fame

  Prior inductees:

  https://www.pcgs.com/pcgscoinfacts/coindealerhof

  Brett, it is very cool that you are continuing this tradition of selecting yearly inductees to the "PCGS CoinFacts Coin Dealer Hall of Fame". We all know what a tough year it has been for everyone - Well done Sir!

  A big Congrats to the 3 newest inductees !!!

  Ken

  My Washington Type B/C Set

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• Tibor Posts: 3,696 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 26, 2020 12:19AM

  I met Bruce at a few shows back in the eighties. Very knowledgeable about coins,
  especially the ultra rarities such as the one @Zoins shared with us. Above all this
  very friendly, willing to share his knowledge and a wonderful sense of humor.
  Bruce , you sir are truly missed.

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• Zoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 26, 2020 8:27AM edited September 26, 2020 8:30AM

  In addition to the Coin World article above above, Heritage has some nice things to say about Catherine, referring to Earl Moore as "a noted Philadelphia autograph dealer and husband of legendary numismatist Catherine Bullowa Moore.

  Here's a fuller biography. It's amazing that she teaching at a medical school, became a coin dealer, and also served on the Assay Commission!

  Heritage wrote:

  Catherine Elias Bullowa, a.k.a. Coinhunter, is a dealer long on experience. Born in Larchmont, New York, Catherine graduated from Connecticut College in 1941 and began a teaching career at Long Island College of Medicine. On May 3, 1952, she was married to David Marks Bullowa who died just over a year later in September 1953. She was remarried to Earl Moore in June 1959, retaining her first husband's name for business purposes. Although she donated and sold much of the numismatic stock at about that time, she continued to attend shows and opened a new business in 1961 under the name Coinhunter, in Philadelphia. Honored with an appointment to serve on the Assay Commission in 1965, she has held membership in several numismatic organizations, serving in official capacity with both the IAPN and the PNG. To this day, Mrs. Bullowa-Moore and her husband still attend a number of coin conventions.

  https://coins.ha.com/itm/large-cents/1801-1c-1-000-xf40-pcgs-s-220-b-12-r3-pcgs-36275-/a/460-2223.s?

  

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• crazyhounddog Posts: 14,074 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 26, 2020 1:09PM

  Congratulations on such great additions🍾🍾🍾

  The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.

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• Boosibri Posts: 12,429 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 26, 2020 2:55PM

  Well deserving recipients

  Latin American Collection

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