Harvey G. Stack, Leading Vendor in Uncommon Coins, Dies at 93
“I had labored pretty much just about every minute that I wasn’t in faculty,” he wrote in a history for the organization.
The agency started in the 19th century by his fantastic-grandfather Maurice got into numismatics as a sideline, shopping for and advertising collector coins and forex in addition to its principal purpose in international trade. It afterwards diversified into working in antiques and scarce stamps.
In 1935, soon after converting the organization to a exceptional coin dealership, Morton and Joseph Stack held their to start with public auction. In 1953, Stack’s moved to a gallery on 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan. (It is now on 38th Avenue and has galleries in other metropolitan areas.)
In 2011, Stack’s merged with Bowers & Merena to develop Stack’s Bowers Galleries.
Mr. Stack was the president of the Professional Numismatists Guild for two yrs commencing in 1989. In 1993 he was supplied the Founder’s Award, the guild’s maximum honor.
In addition to his son, he is survived by his spouse, Harriet (Spellman) Stack his daughter, Susan two grandchildren and five excellent-grandchildren. He lived on Very long Island.
The Stack’s gallery was deemed an inviting worldwide clubhouse by several coin dealers and collectors. But Mr. Stack was not shy about selling the company’s economical accomplishment.
“There are folks who market gold and silver bullion, and rolls and bags of cash, who get in touch with themselves coin sellers, and some of them probably do upward of $100 million business enterprise a yr,” he instructed The New York Times in 1984. “When you say ‘rare coin sellers,’ while, and speak of companies that provide both equally specifically and at auction, we’re the largest coin supplier in the United States.”
He drew a difference concerning coin collectors, whom he courted assiduously, and traders.
“If a collector and an trader experienced to abandon a sinking ship, the collector would take with him the rarest and most aesthetically interesting parts without the need of regard to market place value,” he advised The Moments in 1977. “The trader would attempt to acquire as significantly of his coins as possible, setting up with the most valuable.”
“I had labored pretty much just about every minute that I wasn’t in faculty,” he wrote in a history for the organization.
The agency started in the 19th century by his fantastic-grandfather Maurice got into numismatics as a sideline, shopping for and advertising collector coins and forex in addition to its principal purpose in international trade. It afterwards diversified into working in antiques and scarce stamps.
In 1935, soon after converting the organization to a exceptional coin dealership, Morton and Joseph Stack held their to start with public auction. In 1953, Stack’s moved to a gallery on 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan. (It is now on 38th Avenue and has galleries in other metropolitan areas.)
In 2011, Stack’s merged with Bowers & Merena to develop Stack’s Bowers Galleries.
Mr. Stack was the president of the Professional Numismatists Guild for two yrs commencing in 1989. In 1993 he was supplied the Founder’s Award, the guild’s maximum honor.
In addition to his son, he is survived by his spouse, Harriet (Spellman) Stack his daughter, Susan two grandchildren and five excellent-grandchildren. He lived on Very long Island.
The Stack’s gallery was deemed an inviting worldwide clubhouse by several coin dealers and collectors. But Mr. Stack was not shy about selling the company’s economical accomplishment.
“There are folks who market gold and silver bullion, and rolls and bags of cash, who get in touch with themselves coin sellers, and some of them probably do upward of $100 million business enterprise a yr,” he instructed The New York Times in 1984. “When you say ‘rare coin sellers,’ while, and speak of companies that provide both equally specifically and at auction, we’re the largest coin supplier in the United States.”
He drew a difference concerning coin collectors, whom he courted assiduously, and traders.
“If a collector and an trader experienced to abandon a sinking ship, the collector would take with him the rarest and most aesthetically interesting parts without the need of regard to market place value,” he advised The Moments in 1977. “The trader would attempt to acquire as significantly of his coins as possible, setting up with the most valuable.”