The Heads & Tails of Birth Year Coin Collecting
Instructor: Peter Lawrence
This presentation will highlight the challenges and rewards of birth year coin collecting. It is based on Peter’s experience researching and building a collection of 1963 world coins and commemorative medals. It highlights events of the time, including the JFK assassination, the space race, the Civil War centennial, the death of Pope John XXIII, and the Civil Rights Movement. It also features an interesting commemorative series of the time from Mexico, Venezuela, Germany, and the USA. It will discuss how to determine what coins and medals were issued by or minted in a specific country in a given year. It will also identify various sources of the coins and medals, how you might display them, photograph and catalog them, and put parameters on your collection.
Peter Lawrence spent 35 years managing technology products for companies including Planar, Canon and Autodesk. Today he is a small business consultant living in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was born in Portland, Oregon where his family was in the saddle and holster manufacturing business from 1857 to 1985. He studied business at Oregon State University and then received a master’s degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Phoenix, Arizona. Peter is a musician, world traveler, and coin collector. His current focus is a 1963 birth-year collection of world coins and commemorative medals. Peter is a veteran public speaker and has delivered hundreds of continuing education presentations to architects, engineers and technology consultants throughout his career. His sessions are always filled with entertaining stories, colorful anecdotes, and humor.