Born in Stamford, Connecticut. Served with the Army in the Philippines in WWII. Married to Joan with two children. Employed with the National Broadcasting Company for 35 years.

Founder and first president of Numismatic Error Collectors of America. Past president of the Queens County Coin Club and the Numismatic Error Collectors of America.

Member of the Numismatic Literary Guild. He was the editor and publisher of Error Trends Coin Magazine. He wrote a series of articles that were reprinted as The Numismatic Error Primer, 1971-1972 issued in 1973. Author of Mint Errors on Carson City Silver Dollars issued in 197. Author of The Design Cud in 1979 with Paul Martin. Author of The Error Coin Encyclopedia published in 1991.

He died in Oceanside, New York

obit CW 4/16/2012