Born in Macon, Georgia. Married Susan L. Levesque November 28, 1980. They have two sons. Employed as the manager of printing services for Memorial Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia, after 1986.

Served on the board of directors for CONECA 1985 to 1987 and as president of CONECA 1987 to 1990. He served as editor of Split Image, the newsletter of the Doubled Die Club. Elected governor of the ANA. Named Adult Advisor of the Year in 1992. He was named a Numismatic NewsNumismatic Ambassador in 1993. He received the ANA Glenn Smedley Memorial Award in 1997 and Medal of Merit in 2000.

Co-Author with William Fivaz of The Cherrypicker's Guide to Rare Die Varieties issued in 1990. A fourth edition was published in 2006. He was inducted into the CONECA Hall of Fame in 1994 and the CWTS Hall of Fame in 2002.

He died in Savanna, Georgia.

bio by correspondence, 1991 obit: CW 11/12/18