Los Angeles – California<\/strong><\/p>\n

The relocation to southern California came as a result of my long friendship with Bruce McNall, who I first met on a Seaby business trip to the US in 1968. From small beginnings, by the early ’80s Bruce was owner of Numismatic Fine Arts on Beverly Hills’ prestigious Rodeo Drive and towards the end of 1981 offered me a position with the company. Although it involved uprooting our family and moving to an entirely unfamiliar environment, my wife and I decided to take the plunge. In April of 1982 we became residents of Los Angeles where we have remained ever since (thirty-one years and counting).<\/p>\n

This most recent phase of my career has been an interesting and eventful period (including being within three miles of the epicenter of a major Los Angeles earthquake in 1994). I was obliged to put my writing activities on hold for some considerable time, due to other commitments, though during the ’80s I managed to undertake two important revisions of existing works –\u00a0BYZANTINE COINS AND THEIR VALUES<\/a>\u00a0in 1987 (in collaboration with my old friend Simon Bendall) and\u00a0ROMAN COINS AND THEIR VALUES<\/a>\u00a0(4th revised edition) in 1988. During my eight years with Numismatic Fine Arts I was heavily involved in the compilation of the company’s lavishly produced auction catalogues, many of which have since become classics in their field. These included the catalogues of the celebrated Garrett Collection, sold on behalf of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in which ambitious project I served as co-editor with the eminent classical numismatist the late Dr. Leo Mildenberg of Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland. My collaborator throughout most of this period was my good friend and NFA colleague Cathy Lorber, author of the standard work on the coinage of Amphipolis and co-author with Arthur Houghton of “Seleucid Coins” the new standard reference for this important series. In my early days at NFA I had worked with Eric McFadden, now senior director of the European division of Classical Numismatic Group (CNG) based in London.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles – California The relocation to southern California came as a result of my long friendship with Bruce McNall, who I first met on a Seaby business trip to the US in 1968. From small beginnings, by the early ’80s Bruce was owner of Numismatic Fine Arts on Beverly Hills’ prestigious Rodeo Drive and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-126","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n