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Email Dave Q. David Bowers, Co-Chairman, is perhaps the best-known and most noteworthy numismatist of the last 50 years. Beginning in 1953, Dave’s contributions to numismatics have continued uninterrupted and unabated to the present day. His work with rare coins is so voluminous and so extraordinary that he was named by COINAge magazine as one of the “Numismatists of the Century.” Dave’s dedication to the hobby and his lifelong interest in rare coins, along with his pursuit of scholarly knowledge, have made him one of the most honored and revered numismatists of all time. Dave is the only person to have served as president of both the Professional Numismatists Guild (1977-1979) and the American Numismatic Association (1983-1985). From the PNG, he received their highest honor, the Founders Award, and from the ANA, Dave has received its two most distinguished awards – Numismatist of the Year and the Farran Zerbe Memorial Award. He has lectured at Harvard University and appeared on the Today Show as well as on programs on CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, the Discovery Channel and the History Channel. Dave is the most prolific numismatic author of our generation, having produced 50 works, mostly written in the field of rare coins, including the ANA Centennial History, History of United States Coinage (for the Johns Hopkins University), Adventures with Rare Coins, the two-volume Silver Dollars and Trade Dollars of the United States, and A California Gold Rush History. More recently, he also serves as Numismatic Director of Whitman Publishing LLC, where he has produced another group of books including the very popular Red Book series. More of Dave’s books have won “Book of the Year” honors from the Numismatic Literary Guild than have those of any other author. From the Professional Numismatists Guild, he has received the coveted Friedberg Award a record seven times! During his illustrious career, he has catalogued and sold at public auction many of the finest and most valuable and important collections ever assembled. They include the Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection, the only complete United States coin collection ever brought together, the Harry W. Bass Jr. Collection, the Ambassador and Mrs. R. Henry Norweb Collection, the John Work Garrett Collection sold by order of The Johns Hopkins University, the Childs Collection, the highlight of which was the finest known 1804 silver dollar, the second most valuable coin ever auctioned, as well as others.		Email Harvey Harvey G. Stack, Co-Chairman, has over 50 years of numismatic and public auction expertise. An American Numismatic Association member for over a half century, Harvey Stack was a contributor to the building of its Colorado Springs headquarters, which houses the Stack’s Gallery endowed by his family and which bears its name. He was directly involved with the first ANA Grading Guide and has received the Association’s Medal of Merit. In 1967 he represented the numismatic industry before the U.S. Treasury Department and was instrumental in bringing repeal of the onerous and long-standing gold coin import regulations that had unfairly impacted coin collectors throughout the country. In 1973 he was the sole industry representative to appear before Congress advocating passage of the Hobby Protection Act. Harvey was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the U.S. Assay Commission in 1976, the last sitting of this oldest citizens’ commission, which had assured the integrity of the nation’s coinage for nearly two centuries. He and his son, Lawrence R. Stack, have donated significant numismatic materials to the ANS, the ANA and the National Numismatic Collection of the Smithsonian Institution where he serves as a lifetime member of the prestigious Smithson Society. He served as President of the Professional Numismatists Guild in 1990-91. During this tenure as President, Harvey effectively defended the PNG and the industry from proposed Federal Trade Commission regulations which he felt were inappropriate for responsible professional numismatists. He was honored by his peers with the coveted PNG Founders Award in 1993 and again in 1998 for an unprecedented second time. He is a Fellow of the ANS and an active member of the International Association of Professional Numismatists and Royal Numismatic Society. He has served as an expert witness for the U.S. Treasury Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, a number of world banks, the New York City Police Department, London’s Scotland Yard and other law enforcement agencies all over the world. Harvey appeared before Congress during the 1990’s to propose his idea for the “50 State Quarters” commemorative program; the product of which we are enjoying today. In the summer of 1997 he received a singular honor from the ANA when he was named the Numismatist of the Year for 1997 in recognition of 50 years of service to the coin collecting hobby.



Email Larry Lawrence R. Stack is our Chief Executive Officer/Director of Numismatics and has been a key figure in the Stack’s family firm for over three decades. He graduated from the University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) with a major in history and a minor in philosophy. An experienced collector of the highest degree, he has formed major important and extensive collections of French Ecus, Five-Franc pieces and Ecus d’Or. His in-depth collection of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon coins ranks high among the finest ever assembled and he has pursued a lifelong interest in English Hammered coinage as well. In the area of U.S. numismatics, Larry is a serious student of U.S. colonial coins, gold and type coinage. He is a member of PNG, IAPN, ANA, ANS, Royal Numismatic Society, British Numismatic Society and many major U.S. state and regional organizations. He is a member of the Colonial Newsletter Foundation and a qualified appraiser. During his 30 years in the auction business, Larry has been instrumental in the sale of many of the most notable collections of our generation. These include the collections of James A. Stack, the Garrett family for The Johns Hopkins University, Ellis Robison, Harold Bareford, John L. Roper, Richard Picker, Floyd T. Starr, Congressman Jimmy Hayes, Herman Halpern, Amon G. Carter, Jr., John Whitney Walter, Michael F. Price, and David Queller. Additional highlights of Larry’s career include the sale of the Reed Hawn properties (including the sale of Hawn’s 1913 Liberty nickel and 1804 dollar); the ongoing sales of the John J. Ford, Jr. properties; and, with Sotheby’s, the auctioning of the world’s most valuable coin, the 1933 $20, which realized $7,590,020. Whitman Publishing has called upon his coin pricing expertise as its Valuations Editor to provide up-to-date values for its many publications.		Email Chris Christine Karstedt serves as our President and oversees auction operations and customer service. Additionally she handles our marketing and publicity with unbridled enthusiasm. A fixture at numismatic conventions and auctions for two decades, Chris has built a vast network of industry contacts during her extensive career. Chris’ ability to attract worldwide attention to the sale of numismatic material placed her at the center of the marketing of the $100 million treasure of the S.S. Central America and the S.S. Brother Jonathan. Chris has worked with numismatic trade publications as well as the mainstream press in bringing to market the early sales of the Eliasberg Collection, the Bass Collection, the Norweb Collection of Canadian coins, the Norweb Collection of Washingtonia, and countless other sales over her incomparable career. During her most recent tenure, she has been responsible for the marketing and publicity of the Dr. Haig A. Koshkarian Collection, a fabulous array of valuable copper and silver coins; the Oliver Jung Collection, one of the finest type collections ever assembled; Richard Jewell’s collections of commemorative and three-dollar gold coins; the Cardinal Collection, the finest Bust dollars ever assembled and the Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection of World Gold Coins and Medals whose prices realized stunned the foreign world. Her unstinting and tireless efforts help consignors receive the highest possible prices for their coins. Chris is involved with our day-to-day operations and is one of our auctioneers.



Email David David T. Alexander received his BS and MA degrees from the University of Miami and joined the firm as a cataloguer in 1990. A Life Member of the ANA, he has contributed articles to The Numismatist and the ANA Centennial Anthology and received the Glenn B. Smedley Award and ANA Medal of Merit. He served on the staff at Coin World from 1974-81. He received the Clemy Award from the NLG in 1987. David is a 25-year member of the ANS and a member of the Augustus B. Sage Society. He has presented papers at the 1999 and 2005 ANS Conferences on Coinage of the Americas. David is a Contributing Editor of COINage magazine and pens “The Research Desk” column for Coin World. He received the 1990 Society for International Numismatics Silver Medal of Merit for Excellence in Writing and Research and Krause Publications’ Numismatic Ambassador Award in 1995. In 1998 he founded the Medal Collectors of America and was elected to the Rittenhouse Society. He was President of the New York Numismatic Club in 2005-2006.		Email Jan Jan Eric Blamberg, Ph.D. is an expert and cataloguer of ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins as well as Medieval coins. He joined the firm in 1974 after graduate studies which included a year in London as a Fulbright Fellow. There he completed his doctoral research at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, with extensive use of the numismatic collections of the British Museum, the Hunter Coin Cabinet (University of Glasgow), the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), and the University of Helsinki. He received his doctorate in Ancient and Medieval History from Indiana University. He has written numerous articles for The Numismatic Review and has conducted seminars in ancient coinage for students at Yale and New York University. His in-depth cataloguing and extensive notes have appeared in major sales, most notably the Collections of Knobloch, J. Pierpont Morgan, “Men of Rome” and Michael Price. He served as editor of The Numismatic Legacy of the Jews, published by Stack’s in 2000. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, the New York Numismatic Club, the ANA since 1976, the ANS since 1980 and the Augustus B. Sage Society.



Email Arthur Arthur Blumenthal’s tenure with the firm is rapidly approaching ten years after more than two decades as a professional numismatist in various other capacities. Specializing in U.S. coinage, Arthur has a vast general knowledge of virtually every aspect of numismatics. He began his career at Capitol Coin Co. before becoming General Merchandise Manager at Minkus Stamp and Publishing where his responsibilities included supervising all of the buying and selling of coins, as well as establishing a nationwide marketing program for numismatics. Later, he was head trader at the Galerie Des Monnaies where he spent more than a decade before starting his own coin business. Arthur is a member of the ANA and ANS as well as several other numismatic organizations. He has been quoted in the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal on a variety of numismatic topics. In addition, he is a Graduate of C.W. Post College where he has a degree in History Education. His collecting interests are rather eclectic ranging from numismatics to watches.		John P. Burnham is an expert in U.S., ancient and world coins and medals and has been a member of the staff since 1974. Educated at the University of Oregon and Yale, he served nearly 30 years as Curator of the Numismatic Collection of Yale University. He is an avid collector of medals, especially railroad medals, and led one of the pioneering, medals-only auction houses, Collectors Auctions Ltd. He has been a member of the ANA since 1964 and is a Fellow of the ANS, the Russian Numismatic Society and Medal Collectors of America. He is also a founding member of the Augustus B. Sage Society of the ANS. He has written widely on many numismatic subjects. Burnham is former Chairman of the Connecticut Central Railroad and the Valley Railroad Company, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Providence and Worcester Railroad Company and Mutual Shares Corporation. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Chi, the Elizabethan Club and the Mory’s Association.



Email Greg Gregory J. Cole is a recognized expert on and cataloger of Ancient, Islamic, Medieval and World Coins and World Exonumia. A leading authority on Islamic and Asian coinages, antiquities and art, he has been a professional numismatist for the past 17 years, a numismatic consultant, cataloger and researcher for 12, and a collector since age 7. Blazing a broad swath through the world of coins, as a numismatic scholar, Greg has contributed to a number of references and publications and has participated in the writing of several score rare coin auction catalogs. In the course of this time, he has personally cataloged rare coins with a collective value of well over $100 million, including most recently the Sklarov Collection of Russian Historical Medals, and, in 2004, the fabled Russian rarity, the Constantine Ruble, which brought one of the highest prices paid for a world coin in auction. Greg earned both his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees from New York University. Formerly a journalist and magazine editor, his assignments to the far flung reaches of the globe rekindled his pursuit of coin collecting, while expeditions into the souks and pasars of the Middle East and Southeast Asia honed his interest in Eastern coinages.		Email Bruce Bruce Roland Hagen has been a collector since 1971 and a professional numismatist since 1988. His areas of expertise include U.S. coins and paper money, world coins from 1400 to 1900, American and world medals, Polar exploration ephemera, world paper money and American historical documents. Bruce has worked as a private consultant to numismatic auction houses, museums and foundations, and private collectors of American historical paper currency and financial documents. He has contributed to well over 200 numismatic auction catalogues featuring over $50 million of historical paper currency, coins and medals, stocks and bonds, financial documents and other numismatic items. He is a member of over a dozen organizations including the PCDA, ANA, ANS, SPMC, IBNS, CSNS, FUN, and several regional clubs. Most recently, Bruce has been the lead paper money cataloguer for the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection. He has also worked on the Herb and Martha Schingoethe obsolete currency sales by R.M. Smythe & Co. where he had previously served as VP. He has also contributed to numerous books and articles including Friedberg’s Paper Money of the United States and the Standard Guide to Small-Size U.S. Paper Money by Oakes and Schwartz.



Email Michael Michael J. Hodder is a Numismatic Consultant who is currently responsible for cataloguing the auction sales of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, the magnificence of which has never before been seen in numismatics in one collection. Mike’s herculean efforts have vaulted the prices realized to an astonishing $50 million and that figure is still growing. He specializes in early American coins, medals and militaria struck prior to 1837 and is one of the foremost numismatic researchers of our time. He is a Fellow of the American Numismatic Society and a Founder of the Colonial Coin Collectors Club. Mike has written several books and countless articles on colonial and federal issue coins and medals including his award winning The Norweb Collection: An American Legacy written with Q. David Bowers and the classic Standard Catalogue of Encased Postage Stamps. Over the last 25 years, he has been responsible for cataloguing some of the most significant collections to be sold at public auction including the landmark John Whitney Walter Collection of Coins of 1796, the Queller Family Collection of Half Dollars, the Hain Family Collection of 1652 Massachusetts Silver and the Ambassador and Mrs. R. Henry Norweb Collection of U.S. Coins. The catalogues Mike has written have won more prestigious Numismatic Literary Guild Catalogue of the Year and Extraordinary Merit Awards than any other cataloguer in history. Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society.		Email Jack Jack McNamara has been interested in numismatics since boyhood. He was introduced to coin collecting by his maternal grandfather (whose own grandfather had advertised coins for sale in the American Journal of Numismatics in the late 19th century!) by playing bingo with Wheat cents and a Whitman coin folder. Jack has a general knowledge of U.S. coins and paper money, with early American copper coins being his specialty. He is a contributor to several numismatic publications and auction catalogues including the Handbook of United States Coins and the 15th sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection. A graduate of Rutgers University, he is a lifelong New Jersey resident and as such has a great interest in the coinage and currency of his home state. “Jack Mac” can regularly be found at the New York office cataloguing coins, working with consignors and assisting our retail clientele.



Email Bill Bill Metropolis, a leading authority in the field of mineralogy, is a lifetime collector of coins, specializing in Indian cents. Bill received his undergraduate degree at Salem State College and did his graduate studies at the University of Maryland. For 26 years he was curator of the Mineralogical Museum at Harvard University. He continues to curate the mineral collection at Lafayette College and has served on the boards of the State of California Mineral Collection Preservation Committee and the Society of Mineralogical Museum Professionals. He is an accomplished author in both numismatics and mineralogy and was a consulting editor for a leading mineralogical magazine. He has been a consultant and appraiser for several museums, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Houston Museum of Nature, the Boston Museum of Science, and the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum. Bill has lectured at numerous universities around the world.		Email Scott Scott Mitchell has been with the firm since 1981. He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree from Wheaton College (Illinois) in mathematics and economics with advanced graduate study at the Indiana University School of Business. Scott was formerly a staff member of Galerie des Monnaies, Minkus Stamp and Publishing and Capitol Coin Co. He updated and extensively revised the American Guide to U.S. Coins during a four year period as its editor and also is a contributor to A Guide Book of United States Coins, as well as a number of other coin and currency references. An avid numismatist since the age of seven, his collecting interests include Confederate, Fractional and Pre-Federal currency to U.S. patterns, Roman Imperial denarii, foreign crowns and even sales tax tokens. On a professional level, he is well-versed in every area of U.S. coins and currency and has acquired particular expertise in U.S. type coins, gold, currency and die variety attributions. As one of our senior numismatists, Scott has catalogued many specialized collections, including the Wm. Thomas Michaels Collection of Indian Head Eagles, the Randolph S. Rothschild Collection of U.S. Patterns, and the Lemus Collection of Seated Liberty Dimes.



Email John John M. Pack, one of our auction consignment specialists, has been involved in numismatics for over 20 years. His enthusiasm for all aspects of numismatics, and his sincere approach, guarantees that every consignment will be presented to its finest advantage so as to provide the highest possible prices realized. Further, John will make sure that each and every consignor will have a pleasurable transaction with our firm. In addition to working with auction consignors, John catalogues currency for the firm. His cataloguing talents were widely recognized for several record setting presentations of U.S. paper money highlighted by the world-renowned collections of Harry W. Bass, Jr. and Wayne S. Rich. In addition, he was selected to compose the currency chapter of the important Harry W. Bass, Jr. Museum Sylloge. Most recently, he has become intimately involved with the vast American Banknote Co. materials and has superbly catalogued a good portion of our recent offerings.		Email Tom Tom Panichella became a coin collector at the age of eight, searching for coins in his family’s grocery store register. He focused on 20th-century U.S. coins, making an extensive study of Buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes and Standing Liberty quarters. Tom joined the firm in December 1985 after nine years with Minkus Stamp & Coin, the last two years of which he served as head coin and currency buyer. In addition to working at the New York City office, Tom travels to most of the significant coin and currency conventions held around the U.S. He also travels extensively to appraise and purchase collections for the company. An ANA member since 1988, he has a lifelong interest in the world of stamps and is a former member of the American Philatelic Society. Tom is also a member of Central States, The Professional Currency Dealers Association, and the Fractional Currency Collectors Board. His current interests include collecting New Jersey Obsolete Currency.



Email Beth Beth Piper began her career in numismatics at Bowers and Merena and worked 18 years with that firm. In that time, she earned the distinction of having spent more continuous years working under the direction of Q. David Bowers than any other individual. Beth has participated in nearly every position required at a leading numismatic auction firm, and her responsibilities encompassed receptionist to coin grading to direct sales, as well as numismatic research and cataloguing of auction lots. One of her primary jobs is processing and proofreading auction lots and the final compilation of data files for catalogues. Her work with great numismatic auction sales is extensive and includes landmark offerings such as the collections of the Norweb family, Eliasberg, Bass and Childs, among over 100 other sales.		Email Andy Andrew W. Pollock III has authored United States Patterns and Related Issues, a standard reference book on United States pattern coins issued from 1792 to circa 1979, which won the prestigious PNG’s Friedberg Award in 1995. This book is literally an encyclopedia of information about the ever-popular pattern series. He is also the author of Advertisement Index to the Boston Newsletter and Massachusetts Gazette, 1704-1776, nearly 3,700 pages in length. This latter title features approximately 10,000-12,000 alphabetically-listed entries for individuals, businesses, ships incorporating historical and biographical information gleaned from an estimated 50,000-60,000 advertisements from the historic newspapers. Over the years, Pollock has participated in the writing of dozens of rare coin auction catalogues, and has personally catalogued rare coins having an estimated collective value approaching $100 million. As a hobby, Pollock enjoys collecting antique hand tools manufactured in Kingston, MA.



Email Frank Frank Van Valen is one of America’s best known numismatic personalities and one of our senior cataloguers, and is now in his 21st year of working with Q. David Bowers, first at Bowers and Merena, then American Numismatic Rarities, and now for the Stack's organization. Widely praised for over two decades for his numismatic expertise, Frank’s byline has appeared in scores of the most important auction catalogues ever written including the Ambassador and Mrs. R. Henry Norweb Collection of U.S. Coins, and specialized collections such as the Texas Collection of California Fractional Gold and the historic coin collection of Commodore Matthew C. Perry. A coin collector since 1961, Frank has contributed to the last 19 editions of A Guide Book of United States Coins and his writing talents have earned him the recognition of the NLG. Additionally, his writings have appeared in The Numismatist and many club periodicals over the years. A current ANA Life Member with nearly 30 years of membership, he has taught courses on U.S. type coins at numerous summer seminars hosted by the ANA, and is a member of many national and specialty organizations as well. Frank has an expert understanding of the intricacies of all American coinage in addition to many other numismatic fields. He is also one of our very popular and featured auctioneers.		Email Vicken Vicken Yegparian, one of our auction consignment specialists, is a cataloguer of U.S. coins in copper, silver and gold, including coins of the Colonial and Confederation periods. He is also very much involved with the day-to-day operations running the auction business. A graduate of Columbia University, Vicken was the first recipient of the Georgia Stamm Chamberlain Memorial Award of the Medal Collectors of America for his presentation on colonial era medals of his alma mater, “The Silver Medals of the King’s College Literary Society, 1767-1771,” delivered at the 2004 Coinage of the Americas Conference held by the ANS. He is a member of many numismatic organizations, including the ANA, ANS, the Colonial Coin Collectors Club, and the John Reich Collectors Society, the Liberty Seated Collectors Club and the Fly-In Club (Flying Eagle and Indian Head Collectors Club) among numerous other specialty clubs.

Our Auction Coordinators



Email Julie Julie Abrams recently joined Stack’s with the purpose of expanding their e-commerce presence, including the development of a sophisticated online bidding system. In keeping with Stack’s tradition of serving the institutional marketplace with the deaccessioning of their numismatic properties, she markets consignment programs to museums, universities and financial institutions worldwide. Julie brings to Stack’s a varied and rich background as President of Teletrade, a computerized auction company, where in 1986, she helped develop a unique coin trading method utilizing state-of-the-art digitized voice board technology to run live auctions. She went on to expand the company in size and frequency of auctions, increasing their annual sales to $24 million. In 1999, GMAI purchased Teletrade and Julie was promoted to Executive V.P of Sales. There, her responsibilities included marketing to buyers and consignors with the goal of maintaining a balance between inventory and sales while growing the business. She previously served as Executive V.P. of Business Development at Eureka Trading Systems, an online dealer-to-dealer trading company. Julie is a member of the ANA as well as other national organizations.		Email Hilda Hilda Glatzer is one of the friendly voices you hear when you call our New York office. Next to Harvey, her tenure with Stack’s is the longest now at thirty years! She assists with auction duties in the office, lot viewing, lot pickup, and in our retail gallery. Her numerous years in the business gives her the unique ability to contribute in many aspects of the Stack’s operation.



Email Cynthia Cynthia LaCarbonara coordinates all aspects of our live auction sales. From working with consignor reserves, verification of opening values, and lot assignments, to reconciliation and finalization of all bidding and purchase records, Cynthia is an integral part of the system of checks and balances that make every auction sale a smoothly functioning success. A prominent figure at auction sales, Cynthia is well recognized by dealers and collectors alike.		Email Marissa Marissa E. Lederman is one the newest additions to the Stack’s team! She is a recent graduate of Colgate University, where she majored in History and minored in Religion. You can find Marissa in our New York office helping customers in our retail gallery, as well as assisting fellow numismatists in their daily functions. She is part of our team in cataloguing numismatic items for auctions and on the day of the auction helps make sure everything runs smoothly. She is excited to begin her numismatic career at Stack’s and looks forward to working closely and learning from our many skilled numismatists.



Email Vicki Vicki L. Martin heads our personnel and operations department. She coordinates our on-site auction arrangements and is responsible for providing safe and secure transportation of valuable coin collections to the sales. Vicki supervises the many administrative matters at our office from insurance to computers and their programs. Vicki’s strong organizational skills and detail-oriented background have earned her high accolades over her 20 years experience handling personnel and operational issues with the companies with which she has been associated.		Email Pam Pamela Roberts is an integral part of the Stack’s auction staff, Pam coordinates between consignors, cataloguers, and our graphics department, assists with essential consignment paperwork, and is responsible for much of our internal processing of auction lots, as well as proofreading. At our auction events, Pam works closely with Cynthia LaCarbonara and other members of our staff, assisting our bidders and ensuring that things run smoothly and efficiently during our sales.

Numismatic Sales



Email Andrew Andrew Bowers manages our website content and coordinates editorial material for our publications. He assists in our gallery operations, from putting coins in stock, to tracking our inventory. He brings a great deal of enthusiasm to Stack’s. Andrew has attended many coin conventions and ANA seminars and has traveled extensively with our company to gather coins for “want lists” and assist with our auctions.		Email Melissa Melissa Karstedt works with clients in our retail gallery, with the active support of our team of well-respected numismatists. She maintains our coin inventory and supervises our Monthly Acquisition Program, which assists clients with building fine collections by way of budgeted monthly coin purchases, with each coin carefully and specifically selected by our numismatists to fit the collector’s interests and preferences. As a valued member of our auction team, she often assists in auctioneering. At the many coin conventions she regularly attends, she eagerly assists clients and visitors to our bourse tables.

Finance



Email Laurel Laurel Morrill manages our accounting department, handling all receivable and payable accounts. Laurel has significant experience with the unique accounting requirements of a great numismatic auction firm. For over 20 years, she participated in the accounting duties that promptly paid thousands of auction consignors hundreds of millions of dollars in settlement funds.		Email Susan Susan Stack serves as chief administrator of Stack’s and Coin Galleries’ auctions and mail bid sales. She has been a friendly and familiar face at all of the Stack’s public auction sales for the past 30 years. She works closely with consignors and bidders from the moment consignments arrive through the shipping of lots to successful bidders and has handled this responsibility in an efficient and meticulous manner. Susan also directs the experienced staff that performs the vital tasks that assure expeditious processing of consignments. Behind the scenes, Susan has complete charge of the firm’s many-faceted employee benefit programs and provides the general administrative direction that maintains Stack’s in its leadership position in the world of professional numismatics today. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Education at Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York). She earned her Master’s Degree in Special Education at C.W. Post in 1977.



Email Janice Janice Mitchell has been with Stack’s for over twenty years. She first started as an auction lot coordinator, including packing and showing lots. Her attention to detail earned her a place in the financial department where she has remained to this day. Her responsibilities include the company’s accounts receivables, and on and off site auction data entry. She is an asset to our customer service team and can assist with all aspects of the Stack’s operations.		Email Asha Asha Ramcharan has been with Stack’s for four years. Her many responsibilities include the coordination of accounts payables, the daily upkeep of the company’s general ledger, and the coordination and execution of various auction consignment settlements. She also serves as a Stack’s customer service representative, and carries out all of these day-to-day responsibilities in a meticulous, courteous and professional manner



Email Rebecca Rebecca Stack serves our customers on many levels including accounting and all aspects of our auction operations. She has been a valuable asset behind the scenes at Stack’s for over six years. At the forefront of our customer service department, she handles billing questions, makes adjustments to the vast mailing list and personally assists bidders from all over the world. She will continue to be a familiar face at all our upcoming auction events.

Customer Service



Email Samantha Samantha Douglas is one of the executive assistants to Harvey and Larry, as well as the entire numismatic staff in the New York office. Her professional skills in all aspects of day-to-day operations make her an integral part the Stack’s. She also assists with customer service and public auctions.		Email Jenna Jenna Van Valen is the friendly voice you hear when you call Stack's. She comes to us with several years of experience working in the coin field, having begun her career at Bowers and Merena where she assisted in photography and graphics, and worked with the numismatic staff in catalogue production. As an accomplished photographer, Jenna also lends her talents to the graphics and photography departments at Stack's.



Email Michelle Michelle Osit is one of the newest members of the Stack’s team. As executive assistant, she supports Harvey and Larry Stack as well as the entire numismatic staff. Her tenure as an administrative assistant and her customer service background gives Stack’s a fresh new outlook on customer satisfaction.		Email Mary Mary Tocci directs our shipping and receiving department, handling nearly every package and item of mail that enters or leaves our offices. This extremely important position is vital to the security of all of our incoming and outgoing packages, and her qualifications are unparalleled. She began a career with Bowers and Merena in April 1983. Aside from one brief interlude, she worked for Q. David Bowers for 19 years in total, beginning very shortly after the establishment of his firm in Wolfeboro and continuing until her recent joining of American Numismatic Rarities. Mary also has an excellent rapport with many collectors, having spent years working with clients in subscription maintenance and publication sales.



Email Jeremy Jeremy Wiggin wears many hats at Stack's from shipping and receiving to supervision and maintenance of our computer systems. He has a good understanding of the inner workings of a numismatic company, as he spent nearly three years at Bowers and Merena. During that time he was responsible for inventory control and shipping of thousands of catalogues, books and other publications.

Graphics



Email Bob Bob Krajewski joined the Stack’s team in 2003 and is responsible for the creation of advertising as well as assisting with production and U.S. coin cataloguing. A lifelong collector, he began his professional numismatic career in 1974 with Capitol Coin Company while attending Hofstra University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree with honors in Art and Graphic Design. After becoming a Branch Manager for Capitol Coin, he joined Minkus Stamp and Publishing where he helped create and later manage the 26 branch Coin Division. In 1981 he joined the U.S. Numismatic Department of Manfra, Tordella & Brookes where he became manager of their concourse level World Trade Center branch. In 1983 he became the Director of Advertising and Marketing for Numismatic Funding Corp eventually creating his own advertising agency, Original Impressions, handling the advertising and marketing for many of the area’s numismatic firms.		Email Jennifer Jennifer Meers leads our graphic arts department. In her 13 years with Bowers and Merena, Jennifer developed an eye for professional catalogue design that is unparalleled in numismatics. She is responsible for all auction catalogue layouts. In her career, she has put together many award-winning auction catalogues, books, and other publications. Among her most notable achievements are the auction catalogues for such famous collections as those of Eliasberg, Champa, Bass, and Childs among over 100 others, many of which earned Catalogue of the Year awards from the Numismatic Literary Guild. The dozens of books produced under her direction include several titles by Q. David Bowers, including the landmark works, A California Gold Rush History featuring the treasure from the S.S. Central America, and the Harry W. Bass, Jr. Museum Sylloge. Further, she carefully proofreads all of our publications and she contributes to our publicity campaigns in developing many of our finest advertisements and brochures presented in the coin industry.



Email Christine Christine Metcalfe is an important part of our Graphics and Photography departments, where her graphic design, proofreading, and photography skills contribute to our auction catalogues, as well as our other fine publications.

Photography



Email Doug Doug Plasencia manages our photography department and personally takes all of the coin photographs that appear in our auction catalogues, on our website, and in our other publications. In his career, he has photographed many of the most important numismatic collections ever formed and sold, including those of Eliasberg, Bass, Childs, among others. He was selected by the California Gold Marketing Group to do photography of the gold ingots recovered from the S.S. Central America, he photographed the Jay Roe Collection of California fractional gold coins to illustrate the most recent edition of the Breen-Gillio reference, and he was selected to photograph the Bass Core Collection by the Bass Research Foundation.		Email Amy Amy Hammontree works in our photography department assisting with the preparation of digital images for both our printed and online catalogues. Amy works closely with Doug Plasencia to maintain the high standards of our award-winning photography.