LSCC Hall of Fame
The LSCC Hall of Fame recognizes club members who have made significant contributions to expanding the literature on Seated coinage, who have built an important collection of Liberty Seated coinage or who have served in a leadership position while contributing to the success of LSCC. Individuals will be selected for this honor by a committee of five club members appointed by the club officers. The committee selections are announced during the club meeting at the ANA Summer Convention. Individuals selected for this honor will receive a plaque recognizing their admission to the Hall of Fame and a citation describing their contributions will be published in the Gobrecht Journal.
On
A five member selection committee (chaired by Jim Gray with
members Len Augsburger, Mark Sheldon, Tom DeLorey, and Bill
Bugert) received nominations from the membership and unanimously
approved these inductees into the LSCC Hall of Fame.
To be nominated, potential inductees must have been a
member of the LSCC for at least 10 years and made worthy contributions
in Liberty Seated coinage numismatic research or numismatic
literature, built a significant reference collection of Liberty
Seated coinage, and/or served as a club officer for at least
5 year.
John McCloskey was inducted into the Hall of
Fame for his “Significant accomplishments in LSCC leadership,
literary excellence, numismatic research and reference set building
of Liberty Seated Coinage.”
John is a founding member of the LSCC and has been the
LSCC President since 1975.
He is and has been the editor of the Club’s printed publication,
The Gobrecht Journal,
since 1975. John has
written over 200 articles for The
Gobrecht Journal and was a principal presenter at the 1986
and 1989 American Numismatic Society’s Coinage of America’s
Conferences. He has
extensive reference collections of all the Liberty Seated coin
series. He unselfishly
devotes many hours to mentoring other collectors and is directly
responsible for advancing interest in the Liberty Seated coin
series as well as growing the LSCC membership from a few dozen
to over 600. John and
his wife, Norma, accepted a plaque at the LSCC meeting and awards
ceremony.
Kamal M. Ahwash, also a founder of the LSCC,
was inducted into the Hall of Fame for his “Significant accomplishments
in LSCC leadership, literary excellence, and numismatic research
of Liberty Seated coinage.”
Kam began dealing in Liberty Seated coinage in the mid-1960’s
and is generally considered to be the founder of Liberty Seated
coinage research. In
the 1960’s, he quickly became the nationally recognized expert
of Liberty Seated coins and was a consultant to the American
Numismatic Association’s certification service.
In 1977, he authored the Encyclopedia
of United States Liberty Seated Dimes which became the standard
reference for the series for many years.
Tragically, he died in 1983 at the age of 59 years.
His daughter, Michele Ahwash, accepted his plaque at
LSCC meeting and award ceremony.
2009 Inductee
On
August 6 at the 2009 annual meeting of the Liberty Seated Collectors
Club, Al Blythe was inducted into the LSCC Hall
of Fame. Blythe was the author of "The Complete Guide to Liberty
Seated Half Dimes" (1992) and assembled a massive half dime reference
collection which was sold by Heritage Auction Galleries in 2008.
Blythe was a frequent contributor to The Gobrecht Journal
and operated Sierra Vista Coins in Minden, Nevada for a number
of years. Blythe passed away in 2007 at the age of 82, and was
represented at the Hall of Fame ceremony by his daughters Gail
Blythe Bruney and Cynthe Blythe Renfrew.
