Mosher, Stuart M.

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  • Born 1904:
  • Settled in Buffalo 1926: Buffalo (N.Y.)
  • Moved to New York City 1935: New York (N.Y.)
  • Editor of The Numismatist 1945 - 1954 :
  • Became acting curator of numismatics at the Smithsonian 1948:
Numismatic cartoonist, columnist, author, and editor Stuart Mosher (1904-1956) was born in Canada, settled in Buffalo in 1926, and moved to New York City in 1935, where he was associated with coin dealers Wayte Raymond and the New Netherlands Coin Company. He was the author of The Story of Money as Told by the Knox Collection (1936) and United States Commemorative Coins, 1892-1939 (1940) and he wrote and illustrated a newspaper column called Curiosities of Currency. He became editor of The Numismatist in 1945, a position he held until 1954, and in 1948 became acting curator of numismatics at the Smithsonian Institution.
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