R.S. Yeoman

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  Julian Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭

  November 25, 2008 3:44AM

  I met him on several occasions, but we never had a meal together. He may or may not have ever remembered my name.

  PNG member, numismatic dealer since 1965. Operates a retail store, also has exhibited at over 1000 shows.
  I firmly believe in numismatics as the world's greatest hobby, but recognize that this is a luxury and without collectors, we can all spend/melt our collections/inventories.
  
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  firstmint Posts: 1,171 ✭

  November 25, 2008 4:07AM

  He attended many of the larger coin shows.
  
  I had him sign my copy of the Redbook at the August 1978 ANA convention in Houston.
  
  For those who may not know, his real last name was "Yeo".
  
  

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  OregonCityGold Posts: 427

  November 25, 2008 4:24AM

  Funny that Julian mentions meals. I actually had dinner with him sometime in the mid to late 80s, with a bunch of other coin people. It was quite memorable, not because of anything we talked about, but because we were all eating BBQ ribs. He was sitting was right across the table from me, having a hard time getting each rib in his mouth. For every piece of rib and drop of sauce that made it in, two would dribble out. Now, I'm sure he was a good man, God rest his soul, but in the words of Longacre, this was the wrong way to eat ribs in public. I dry heaved a couple times, and it took everything I had not to hurl. RIP.

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  CaptHenway Posts: 34,228 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 25, 2008 4:29AM

  I met him several times at coin shows.
  Didn't know him well.
  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.

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