Have you had any encounters with numismatic notables?

This post by Anton in another thread brought this to mind for me.



I met her at a coin show in St Louis in 2002. In fact, I almost put her in the hospital.

She is a fairly small woman and I am a fairly large guy. She was walking briskly back to her table as I was turning to cross the same aisle to go to another table. Fortunately, she had good reflexes and I was not at top speed. I just missed running full into her which probably would have knocked her to the floor. I am sure she does not remember but it always stuck in my mind as a funny incident and one of my literal 'Brushes With Greatness' encounters. I did later get a souveneir that day too as she was signing stuff for the show.



As a side note, she is a quite attractive woman and her perfume smelled very nice.

No brushes with greatness with numismatics. Hey I like autographed picture. Look she even put little staples on there for you.

Cool story Stu,
but aside from looking in the mirror every morning, no brushes with greatness.

I did talk to Mr Bowers at the FUN show this year, if that counts.

That would count for me! I was hoping to see him at the same show back in 2002 but he was not there. I did meet Anthony Swiatek, a very knowledgeable US Commem guy, there. He was very nice and talked at length to the guy I was with about his commems.

I saw and talked to a big hairy, rather smelly and unkempt guy that wrote a huge book on USA coins several times when I lived on the Left Coast of the USA. He shares his name with other infamy, a family that was in the Donner Party in 1847.

She is a hottie, she should replace presidents on the paper money.

I've met at Brasov numismatic show the author of first Romanian tokens catalogue, Mr. Erwin Schaeffer one of the few Romanians with their name founded in "Acknowlwdgements" of Krause catalogue.

I've never met anyone famous from the coin world in person. Although i've talked to the late Colin Cooke over the internet and in the UK world he was pretty big.

One of the many good things about collecting coins is that you can pretty much meet all the experts, top dealers, and know-it-alls at the major shows. Not like politics where you spend $2000 and get an oyster. Here you can spend $2000, meet the person, and take home some sweet, sweet coins.