Following a nineteen-year career as publisherat Whitman Publishing, Dennis Tucker will retire at the end of February 2024. He plans to spend time with family in the United States and the Philippines while pursuing creative and philanthropic projects.

Tucker has served Whitman as its publisher from December 2004, when the company was owned by Atlanta-based Anderson Press, through its recent acquisition by CDN Publishing. During that time, he has overseen the publication of more than 300 titles ranging from 64-page monographs to 1,504-page references in the fields of numismatics, banking and financial history, the American presidency, U.S. military history, and other nonfiction topics.

said Whitman president Mary Burleson.

Tucker has been part of the modern renaissance in numismatic publishing that started in 2003 with the addition of Q. David Bowers as Whitman's numismatic director. He helped develop more than two dozen volumes in the best-selling Bowers Series, as well as the popular library, many encyclopedic reference books, and twenty editions of the Red Book, which sold more than six million copies during his tenure.

An award-winning author himself, Tucker wrote the Whitman book American Gold and Silver: U.S. Mint Collector and Investor Coins and Medals, Bicentennial to Date (2016). He has written more than 400 articles published in commercial, scholarly, and popular numismatic journals and periodicals; given more than 40 numismatic presentations and lectures nationwide; taught courses at the American Numismatic Association's Summer Seminar at Colorado College; and been interviewed for hobby and mainstream media including NPR's and

He has earned numerous hobby recognitions including the ANA's Glenn B. SmedleyMemorial Award. In 2020 he was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by Governor AndyBeshear for his career in publishing and for promoting the Commonwealth's numismatichistory. In 2021 he was named by Coin World as one of the most influential people innumismatics from 1960 to 2020.

After his retirement Tucker will continue in various numismatic roles and activities, includingas secretary pro tem of the Rittenhouse Society, and as coauthor (with Coin World editorSteve Roach) of the ANA's blog column. He will finish his second termthis year as numismatic specialist of the Treasury Department's Citizens Coinage AdvisoryCommittee, and he serves as chairman of the board of directors of Brayhope Farm, Inc., aNew York charitable nonprofit that offers community health and educational programs forautistic children and others with physical, developmental, behavioral/emotional, and sensoryneeds.

Tucker said.

With a heart full of gratitude and a legacy built with unwavering dedication, Dennis Tuckersteps into retirement with immense pride, cherishing the memories created, and the impactmade throughout an extraordinary career.

I'm retiring from Whitman Publishing at the end ofthis month. For a couple years I've been quietly working toward stepping down, in order to havemore time for family and personal projects. Last year I took the first baby steps by scaling backto four days a week. Whitman's acquisition by CDN Publishing in October 2023 brought newopportunity to finally take the plunge. I'm confident in the company's new ownership (as I waswith Anderson Presss), and I like what I see in the management and resources CDN brings to thetable. My biggest reluctance in retiring came from uncertainty about executive/managerialsuccession, but I'm comfortable with the vision and commitment I've witnessed over the pastfew months, and I see great potential and bright horizons ahead.

I'm not physically going anywhere (I'll still be in Atlanta), and I plan on staying active in the hobby community, research, and writing. I'll be at the ANA show in March, and in August, and I look forward to seeing many of you in person, there and elsewhere.

As Dave Bowers often says,