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Leo was recently acepted as a member of PNG and is a life member of the ANA and holds membership in FUN, CSNS, and other numismatic organizations. He believes education is the foremost building block to numismatics and encourages all collectors to broaden their horizons and get actively involved in the hobby. Donate freely to YN organizations both locally and on the national level.

Leo's outside interests include collecting Minnesota pottery and elegant depression glass. Although travel is an important element of his job, he relishes time at home with his family. His wife Wendy, children Alicen and Adam, and son-in-law Jeff are his personal treasures.

Warren became interested in coins at an early age, with his first purchase from B. Max Mehl's Rare Coin Encyclopedia in 1947. He was also encouraged by a cousin who was a bank teller during the late '40s and early '50s, "at a time when it was not unusual for commemorative half dollars, Indian cents, Seated coins, and even an occasional Bust issue to cross the bank counter. At Georgia Tech, Warren was a member of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, along with fraternity brother John Hamrick.

To his first coin shop in Atlanta came customers with such interesting items as bags of Ptolemaic bronzes, and a hoard of BU Colombian 8 and 10 reales. According to Warren, "These 2 purchases sparked a passionate interest in world coins that continues today." In 1968, Warren joined Jack Boozer and Doug Weaver in business in Waco, Texas, where he first met Steve Ivy. Warren later moved back to Georgia, where he ultimately became a partner with John Hamrick at WorldWide Coin Investments of Atlanta. "World-Wide was one of the largest coin companies in the world at the time, and purchased such rarities as an 1894-S dime from Jerry Cohen, the Hydeman 1913 Liberty nickel (for $100,000), the Idler 1804 dollar ($80,000) from Abe Kosoff, an 1838-O half dollar, and an 1876-CC twenty cent piece. We exhibited these coins at numerous coin shows and the 1913 nickel was featured in an episode of Hawaii 5-O entitled The $100,000 Nickel." During the 1970s, Warren began more extensive travel throughout Europe and Asia to buy coins. In 1979, he first joined forces with Steve Ivy, opening an office in Atlanta. Associations with Richard Nelson and Ronald J. Gillio followed thereafter. After more than a decade in business for himself, Warren has once more joined forces with Heritage.

After serving as a Senior Manager and Consignment Director in other collectible fields outside of numismatics, Sam returned to Heritage in 2002 as a Consignment Director in time to help Heritage's expansion into other collectible areas. In this important role, Sam travels the country assisting clients who wish to liquidate their collections of coins, paper money, decorative arts, and sports collectibles. To Sam, helping consignors make the best decisions to maximize their returns from the auctioning of their properties is the most rewarding part of his job.

Sam also holds auction licenses in several jurisdictions, and has hammered in excess of $150 million in collectibles as one of Heritage's primary auctioneers. During his elusive (but much appreciated) free time, Sam really enjoys spending time with his wife (Heather) and two children (Jackson and Caroline). His personal interests include gardening, golf, grilling, and sports.

David Lisot has more than three decades of experience as a writer, researcher, publisher, cataloger, public speaker and website creator. He has attended collector conventions around the world since 1971. His expertise encompasses coins and paper money of the United States and world, gems and jewelry, stamps and pocket watches as well as other areas such as art, post cards, cigar label art, antique advertising and more. He is an accomplished videographer and television producer. In his primary roles at Heritage he is Director of the Heritage Coin Club Outreach program as well as Director of Consignments.

His background includes being featured in the Public Television series, Money Moves, with Jack Gallagher, as on-air talent and segment producer for collectibles. He was the reporter for Financial News Network, (now CNBC), covering numismatics for viewers on Wall Street with his live news program, Coin Report, that aired daily for almost five years. He founded the website Cointelevision.com, a free news and programming service about coin collecting on the Internet.

As a videographer he has produced the award winning documentaries, Money, History in Your Hands, with veteran film star James Earl Jones that aired on Public Television as well as, Era of Hometown Bank Notes, for the Higgins Money Museum. Recent achievements for Heritage Auctions include the video, Selling Your Coins and Currency at Auction, hosted by Jay Johnson, 36th Director of the United States Mint, which won awards in the International Film and Television and Telly competitions. Most recently is the production, Selling Your Vintage Collectibles at Auction, hosted by Adam West, TV's Batman. Since the 1980's he has videotaped over 750 lectures and presentations about coins and collecting as seen on Coinvideo.com.

Lisot served as a Governor of the American Numismatic Association from 1994-95, and was twice awarded the coveted Glenn Smedley Award. He has worked on numerous committees as well as contributing his videotaping services to collector clubs to help increase their membership and promote overall interest in the different hobbies. He is an associate member in the Professional Numismatists Guild for his video production as well as a long-time or life member in the American Numismatic Association, American Israel Numismatic Association, California State Numismatic Association, Central States Numismatic Society, Numismatics International, Florida United Numismatists, Numismatic Association of Southern California, Society of International Numismatists, Sociedad de Numismatica de Mexico, and the Texas Numismatic Association.

Lisot is a graduate of University of Colorado in Boulder, with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. He continued his education at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. He earned the title, Graduate Gemologist, studying at the Gemological Institute of America in California. He has attended classes for television and videography at various schools in Colorado, California and Texas. He is currently enrolled in a Master of Liberal Studies program at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. David is married with two children. He enjoys travel, history, exercise, and religious studies.

Doug is married with two children, a son and daughter. When not trading gold coins he enjoys riding and tinkering with motorcycles. He is also an avid ice hockey fan, and is active in his son's ice hockey teams.

Cristiano is a life member of the ANA and FUN and several other numismatic clubs and organizations around the world. He and his wife Susan have 2 girls and are thrilled to be moving back to the US after 12 years.

He recently returned to Heritage after a 13-year absence. He cited Heritage's total commitment to "World Class Customer Service" and the "Can Do - Nothing is Impossible" attitude of management and each and every employee as the driving force in his decision to return.

He enjoys collecting hand-blown Depression glass and antique aquarium statues.

After graduating from high school in 1967, Scott studied History at Cal-Berkeley for four years. He spent his junior year at the University of Lund in Sweden, studying History, Scandinavian Languages, and semi-athletic teams. He graduated from UC Berkeley with "great distinction" and Phi Beta Kappa honors. After college, he worked for Worldwide Coins in Atlanta for a few months before going into business for himself, and then in partnership with Freeman Craig. In 1975, Scott again decided to pursue world coins independently, and he has been in the foreign coin business ever since.

Scott is a member of the ANA, NI, AINA, ONS and IBNS, and has been a member of the IAPN as well, from 1979-1993. In addition to his private sales, Scott has been cataloging world coins for Heritage World Coin Auctions since October of 2002.

Chris is married to his beautiful bride Jen and they have 2 children (Hannah, 4 years old; and Isaac, 2 years old). He is an avid sports fan and loves to root for the New York Yankees, Denver Broncos, and Iowa State Cyclones. In his free time he is a registered TASO (the Texas Association of Sports Officials) baseball umpire. In his capacity as an official he umpires High School and College Baseball and is a retired High School Football referee. In 2006 he was honored to be chosen to umpire the Illinois Community College All-Star Game and was selected as the "High School Umpire of the Year" by his Umpires' Association. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of his local TASO baseball Chapter.

Always interested in collectibles, he was impressed from early childhood by the Smithsonian collections of both coins and minerals, which were within walking distance of his father's office at the National Press Building at 14th and F streets in Washington, D.C. He maintains an extensive collection of minerals at his German home, near the Rheinland city of Dusseldorf, which he shares with his wife of 25 years. His wife, Elisabeth, is a German native, and they speak German at home. Their two bilingual daughters currently attend universities in the United States, after secondary school education in Germany. Marc also has a collection of U.S. coins and an assortment of guitars hand-crafted by legendary luthier Bozo Podunavac. A musician by hobby, he has made recordings and done solo concert tours in his spare time, a commodity which he finds in all too short supply of late.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Marc joined one of the two firms that later merged in late 1982 to form Heritage. He is has been with the company without interruption since joining in August, 1975, and is now in his 33rd year with Heritage. He founded and oversees the operations of the Heritage Overseas offices, which are now in France (since 1979), Germany (since 1979), Switzerland (since 1984), and the Netherlands (since 1990). The Heritage offices in France, Switzerland and the Netherlands are all run by natives of those countries, coordinating in their own languages through Marc at the German office with the Heritage world headquarters in Dallas. The European offices, under Marc's supervision, in turn offer Heritage services to collectors, consignors and estate executors in their own countries and in their own languages, as well as to banks and Central Banks around Europe and the world.

Todd has already accomplished more than the vast majority of dealers will in a lifetime and he enjoys a reputation that is envied by the entire numismatic community. His first company was named by Inc. magazine as one of the nation's fastest growing private companies three years in a row (1989, 1990 & 1991). In 1991, he co-founded Pinnacle Rarities, a firm that specialized in servicing the rare coin industry's savviest and most prominent collectors. At 25, he was among the youngest people ever accepted to the Professional Numismatists Guild, and currently serves on its Consumer Protection Committee and its Legislation/Taxation Issues Committee. In 1992, he was invited to join the Board of Directors for the Industry Council for Tangible Assets, later serving as its Chairman (2002-2005). In the famous Phillip Morse Sale, he became the only person in history to purchase two separate $1mm+ coins during a single auction session! Todd served as President of Pinnacle until his decision to join us here at Heritage in May, 2006.

Although relatively new to Heritage, Todd was no stranger to a great many of Heritage's most prominent clients who had previously sought his counsel and found his expertise and integrity to be of great value. Over the years, our Consignment Directors had noted that so many of the finest and best performing coins being sold in Heritage auctions were linked to the same dealer . . . Todd Imhof. We made it a priority to recruit Todd and were delighted he accepted our invitation to join us here in 2006. He truly understands what a collector is trying to accomplish and has an uncanny ability to identify the perfect coins at the right prices. He really impresses clients and colleagues by his ability to navigate complex and difficult deals with unsurpassed professionalism.

We are very proud to have Todd on our our executive team and we're confident you'll benefit tremendously from his knowledge and integrity.

Todd is an avid competitive sailor and collector of fine wines and Olympic medals. He and his wife have two boys (ages 7 & 6) and a one-year old daughter.

Starting as Numismatic Buyer for Paramount International Coin Corporation in 1972, he went on to open Essex Numismatic Properties, in 1975 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, acting as President and CEO. Later, positions at M.B. Simmons & Associates, of Narberth, Pennsylvania, included, Director of Sales, Director of Marketing and Advertising, and Executive Vice President. In 1979, he reorganized Essex in Connecticut and, as Essex Numismatics, Inc., worked as COO., and partner. Later in the mid 1980's, Jim became a majority stockholder and CFO. His involvement with Essex Numismatics, Inc. remained a constant until his recent move to Dallas to join the staff at Heritage Capital Corporation as Senior Numismatist, and Consignment Director.

"I am a father of two sons, and am actively involved in both my church and my community. I have just completed my 20th season of coaching youth athletics, I am involved in Boy Scouting as a troop leader and as a merit badge counselor. I have been a fund raiser for Paul Newman's "Hole in the Wall Gang" camp for terminally ill children, and for Boy Scouts. My personal diversions include fly fishing, sky diving, cooking, and wine collecting," adds Jim.

Dustin's numismatic interests started at the age of 10 when he received a number of U.S. and foreign coins from his grandfather. At the age of 15 he was already attending national conventions including the annual ANA Convention. Though he was buying and selling coins and currency, his interests were mostly academic prior to joining Heritage and his accomplishments include a number of literary and exhibiting awards from the ANA. Dustin also served as an Exhibit Judge and Numismatic Theater Speaker for the ANA.

As the Director of Currency Auctions for Heritage, Dustin is responsible for consignment acquisitions, purchasing, cataloging, catalog production as well as managing the currency inventory. His broad numismatic knowledge has allowed him to assist thousands of consignors with the disposition of tens of millions of dollars worth of U.S. and foreign coins and currency. Dustin is a member of the Professional Currency Dealers Association and the Society of Paper Money Collectors.

In his spare time, Dustin is an avid traveler and is learning Russian. He is also trying to memorialize his grandfather and great grandfather's contributions in the two World Wars. His first project is a website, 364thInfantry.org, dedicated to the men of the 364th Infantry in World War I.

Like so many of our clients, Mike started putting together sets of coins from circulation when he was a small boy. Of course that collection grew and grew, and ultimately, it went to the auction blocks with Heritage in January 2004. Before coming to Heritage, his unlimited access to air travel enabled him to attend coin shows all around the country whenever he wanted. He gained a tremendous knowledge of rare coins and developed an outstanding eye for quality. He is a trusted friend and colleague to many of today's most active collectors. Having been a collector for so long, and a Heritage consignor himself, Mike understands the needs of the collector and what Heritage can offer. Mike is married, has three children, and enjoys coaching and playing lacrosse