John Albanese
Biography
Born in Akron, Ohio. Attended Rutgers University for one year. Coin dealer after 1978. Married with a family.
Employed at Raab Coin Shop. An original founder of Professional Coin Grading Service in 1986. Founder with Mark Salzberg of the Numismatic Guarantee Corporation (NGC) in 1988. Co-founder of California Gold Marketing Group. Founder of Intercept Shield. Founder of Certified Acceptance Corp (CAC) in 2007. PNG member after 2011. In 2016 he was inducted into the PCGS CoinFacts Coin Dealer Hall of Fame.
In 2021 he was on the Coin World list of The Most Influential People in Numismatics 1960-2020. He made the list again in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
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Profile NN 11/7/1995
Source credit: Pete Smith, American Numismatic Biographies