At our annual meeting at the ANA convention, W. David Perkins will speak on "The Ostheimers of Philadelphia and their Extraordinary Collection of Silver Dollars". Dave is a collector, student and researcher of the early United States silver dollars 1794-1803. Dave also collects tokens and numismatic literature, especially books, catalogs and documents pertaining to the great early silver dollar collections and collectors.

In addition to NBS, Dave is a member of numerous numismatic organizations; he has authored over 15 articles for the John Reich Journal as well as articles for the TAMS Journal, Civil War Token Journal and Talkin' Tokens. His articles have won awards from NLG, JRCS and TAMS. His interest in Civil War Store Cards (or tokens) started with a discovery that his great-great grandfather issued two Detroit, Michigan Civil War tokens in 1863.

Dave was a consultant to Bowers & Merena in the cataloging of the Eliasberg early silver dollars, and was a major contributor to Jules Reiver's new book The United States Early Silver Dollars 1794 to 1803.

His talk is based on his research over the last decade. The Ostheimer early silver dollar collection 1793-1805 [note '1805' is not a typo] included specimens from many of the great sales and collections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.