Home› U.S. Coin Forum
Options

If you could be any luminary in the numismatic world...

GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
in U.S. Coin Forum
who'd you be?

Comments

  • Options
    edix2001edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭
    Cameron Kiefer, 'cuz he's young?
    member, Greater Houston Coin Club - Edwin's Coin Cabinet
  • Options
    savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,374 ✭✭✭✭
    QDB for the gravitas......heck, cammie aint old enough to shave image

    greg

    www.brunkauctions.com

  • Options
    WTCGWTCG Posts: 8,940 ✭✭✭
    Ryan Carroll or Kevin Lipton. Both are extremely successful and highly respected in the business while one is one of the best graders in the business today and the other is one of those folks who can say anything and everything without impunity.

    Follow me on Twitter @wtcgroup
    Authorized dealer for PCGS, PCGS Currency, NGC, NCS, PMG, CAC. Member of the PNG, ANA. Member dealer of CoinPlex and CCE/FACTS as "CH5"
  • Options
    MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,618 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not to seem like I'm kissing up or anything...but I'd be David Hall. image
  • Options
    foundinrollsfoundinrolls Posts: 507
    Hardly a luminary, but a nice guy...I'd be the guy who writes that Found In Rolls column for CW :-) ;-)
    myurl askaboutcoins.com

    myurl http://www.foundinrolls.com
  • Options
    roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,374 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There are very few luminaries in this biz. If they got to that point, it was probably from stepping over a lot of people along the way. I couldn't even pick someone from a major auction house. No one gets to the top of this heap in coins by being a great all-around humanitarian. Being aggressive and cut-throat at times is part of the game. If you play fair all the time you don't survive as a rule.
    Being popular, a sage, or well-known is one thing. Being a true mentor of the hobby and walking the talk during one's entire time of service is another. I think the money issue gets caught between the good deeds that should be done. Once profits and livelihood are made the priority, the good-guy stuff goes out the window.

    This would be a very short list imo...esp on the dealer side. There might be a lot of collectors who qualify but they would not be well known to the entire hobby....but they could be luminaries in my eyes.

    roadrunner
    Barbarous Relic No More, LSCC -GoldSeek--shadow stats--SafeHaven--321gold
  • Options
    ahooka454ahooka454 Posts: 3,466 ✭
    I love those found in rolls stories. always ready to read whats been pulled from them.. Good column. imho
  • Options
    cladkingcladking Posts: 30,359 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll probably always be pretender to the throne. image
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • Options
    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,297 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've been saying for years that I want to be Bob Julian when I grow up. I think he will go down in history as the greatest numismatic writer of all time.
    Tom DeLorey
    Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • Options
    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,849 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I've been saying for years that I want to be Bob Julian when I grow up. I think he will go down in history as the greatest numismatic writer of all time.
    Tom DeLorey >>



    Tom---You're no slouch yourself when it comes to numismatic writing. Keep up the good work.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • Options
    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,297 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thank you. I try, but know when I am outclassed.
    TD
    Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • Options
    tydyetydye Posts: 3,894 ✭✭✭
    Actually I would be myself but a kid of 8 again. A time when a 50 cent Indian Head cent purchase was exciting. And I knew basically nothing other than the fact that it was a cool old coin.
    It seems the more i know the less exciting it is and the more costly the purchase
  • Options
    foundinrollsfoundinrolls Posts: 507
    Come on Tom :-) I know where you are coming from with Bob Julian but It must be pretty good being you:-) You are no lightweight :-) IMHO

    Have Fun,
    Bill
    myurl askaboutcoins.com

    myurl http://www.foundinrolls.com

Leave a Comment

BoldItalicStrikethroughOrdered listUnordered list
Format
SpoilerCodeQuote
Heading 2Heading 1
Emoji
:):D:(;):/:o:s:p:'(:|B):#:*<3o:)>:)
Url
Image
Align leftAlign centerAlign rightToggle HTML viewToggle full pageToggle lights
Drop image/file
Home • U.S. Coin ForumComment As ...