I met Martin Gengerke about thirty years ago through Remy Bourne. Remy was a major contributor to Martin's compilation of catalogs and I also made a minor contribution. It was about that time that Martin came to Minneapolis for a visit and Remy invited me to join them. Logically, much of the conversation was about auction catalogs. My impression is that he was unwilling to keep up with listing new catalogs because he needed to spend more time on activities where he could make a living.

The last time I saw Martin was at the FUN show about fifteen years ago. In those days, Fred Lake hosted an NBS meeting at the show. I recall Martin was sitting in the back. I was not able to speak with him for very long.

When I knew Martin, he lived in New York. I don't recall that he attended the NBS meetings during ANA conventions. I lost touch by the time he moved to Bushkill, Pennsylvania.

I have updated his listing for American Numismatic Biographies on the Newman Numismatic Portal.

Gengerke, Martin Researcher/Writer (b. 8/27/1947 d. 12/18/2020)
Born in New York City. Attended Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Married to Beatrice. Employed with the United Parcel Service.

He sold currency under his own name in 1976. Employed as cataloger for Lester Merkin, NASCA in 1979, Herbert I. Melnick, and Stack's.

Gengerke was a specialist in paper money. Compiler of American Numismatic Auctions. 125 copies of the 8th edition were published in 1990. One hundred were GBC bound and 25 were hardbound with additional pages listing consignors. Author of U. S. Paper Money Records. 100 copies were published. Editor of The Asylum 1995 to1996.

Gengerke collected fractional currency and credit cards. He claimed to have the only complete collection of regular issue fractional currency ever formed. This was sold at auction by Currency Auctions of America on January 6-7, 1995.

Remy Bourne writes:

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