Name 10 persons who made coin collecting what it is today
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You may name more or less and can be good or bad. Just thought it would be neat to get different opinions.
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Check out the Southern Gold Society
TorinoCobra71
John Albanese
Dave Bowers, and everyone at ANR
Heritage
Whoever invented the coin section at Ebay
" " " " " " Teletrade
Dave Harper and staff at Numismatic News
US Mint
Hmmmmmm
Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
US Rare Coin Investments
800-624-1870
John Albanese
Dave Bowers
David Halperin/Steve Ivy
Whoever started Teletrade
Whoever started CDN
Whoever started authentication at ANACS (eventaully led to grading)
B Max Mehl
Russ, NCNE
Augustus G. Heaton
Walter Breen
David Hall
Alan Hager
J.K. Post
Wayte Raymond
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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Even without it, I think Hall and PCGS would have come around at the same time with the same product. The market required it. As did the FTC in some regards.
You guys listed all my choices.
roadrunner
R S Yeoman
Davenport... can't think of the guys first name at the moment, But Books in connection with World Crowns are still excellent references
Walter Breen
Leroy Van Allen
David Bowers
David Hall
I am stopping at 7
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True, but you could remove Hall from the list for the same reason. A world of slabs was inevitable.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
John Reich and Christian Gobrecht - for creating these beautiful designs.
Howard P. Newlin - for writing about the early half dimes in such glowing terms.
Dr. Daniel W. Valentine - for giving us his very best effort, a book about half dimes that has endured for nearly 75 years.
Jules Reiver - for sharing of his knowledge and wisdom, and for publishing his Variety Identification Manuals, that introduced us to die variety collecting.
Russell J. Logan - for serving as mentor and friend, and for assisting me in acquiring so many R6 and better marriages.
John McCloskey - for being a charter member of both the JRCS and LSCC, and for devoting so many years of his life to sharing this wonderful hobby with others.
Liz Coggan - for assisting me for so many years in assembling a reference collection of quality half dimes, and for providing me with endless opportunities to acquire the good ones.
And several good friends, like Mark Smith, Stan Kubacki, Russ Logan, and others who shared their great knowledge and friendship before they were taken from us much too early.
If it were not for these people, and many others, I would not have found the enjoyment and camaraderie in this hobby that I love so much. It was these people, for me, that made this hobby what it is today.
–John Adams, 1826
The first reported guy to look for a coin of his birthdate 1799
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Russ, NCNE
For better or worse he's certainly influenced collecting.
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Dr. George Heath.
Wayte Raymond
Lee Hewitt.
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B. Max Mehl
Howard R. Newcomb
William H. Sheldon
Wayte Raymond
Walter Breen
Farran Zerbe
David Hall
R. S. Yeoman
Chapman brothers, Henry and S. Hudson Chapman
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U.S. Dimes Complete Set with Major Varieties, Circulation Strikes
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
John F. Kennedy
Dwight Eisenhower
Susan B. Anthony
Sacagawea
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ps, oh I guess if I had to put a tenth, it would have to be the Indian dude on the nickel
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St. Gaudens
Longacre
Wm. Barber
Chas. Barber
V.D.Brenner
etc.
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Norman Stack - had published the little Dell pocket book of U.S. Coin values that were available at the grocery checkout counters in the 60's and 70's. Undoubtedly, this brought in many collectors as they bought the book and went home to see what they might have in the piggy bank or in grandpa's stash.
I believe they also placed a full page ad on the back of many comic books from that era that proclaimed "We will pay $100,000 for an 1804 Silver Dollar". Man, I had $ signs spinning in my head and the search was on! I dove in and searched and learned and learned more the more I searched. Whoever ran that ad, and I believe it was Stack's, was basically single=handedly responsible for my entry into the hobby and what became an interest in coin collecting that has lasted for 40+ years.
Bill Fivaz & J.T. Stanton - Popularized the exciting area of variety collecting with many mainstream existing collectors through their creation and publication of the Cherry Pickers' Guide To Rare Die Varieties.
There are so many others that deserve mention, but may not technically make the top 10. Surely the likes of Van Allen, Lange, Tomaska, Wexler, Flynn, Lawrence, et al, deserve much credit for expanding the interest in certain series or categories of collecting.
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Pierre Omidar, for his origination of eBay.
No others come close.
2. Augustus St Gaudens - #2 $10 Indian design
3. B Max Mehl - got everyone to look at their change
4. Quincy D. Bowers - high profile good-guy
5. Benjamin Franklin - ditto
6. Thomas Jefferson - ditto
7. Teddy Roosevelt - pushed for beautiful coinage
8. Eunice Shriver - helped establish a new standard for US Coin
Design
9. Ted Binion - showed that even rich guys gotta pay for it
10. Laura - crusader for Numismatic Justice
rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
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I think you're confusing his involvement with coins with him creating the internet.
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