(L2023)

Born in Cleveland, Ohio. Earned a B.F.A. from The University of Akron in 1992. Completed an M.A. in 2008 from The University of Manchester, U.K., with studies at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. Attended Baldwin Wallace University. Married to Andrea J. Pinto.

Worked as an editorial designer at New York-based Advanstar Communications. Since 2010, he has taught visual communication at the college level and currently serves as a faculty member at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland.

Kodysz has presented talks on ancient Roman coinage and taught digital image editing at the ANA Summer Seminar. He received the ANA’s Thos. H. Law Award for Best First-Time Exhibitor at the World’s Fair of Money in 2019 and is a three-time recipient of the Howland Wood Memorial Award for Best-of-Show Exhibit (2019, 2021, and 2023). He is an ANA-certified exhibit judge and has received awards for numismatic writing and photography from the NLG. In 2023, he won first place for the ANA’s Prue and Arthur Fitts Literary Award for Ancient and Medieval Coinage Studies with his article “Prince of Youth.”

His numismatic research has identified over two dozen previously uncataloged types and varieties of Roman imperial coins, published in the peer-reviewed journal