Roger W. Burdette
Biography
(L2024)
He began collecting by filling coin folders from pocket change. Received B.S. and M.S. in education from University of Maryland. He has two daughters. Employed in information systems with a non-profit corporation.
Specialist in coin photography and original research. He has contributed articles to Coin World, Coins and The Numismatist. He also contributed to several standard reference books.
Author of Renaissance of American Coinage 1905-1908 (2006); Renaissance of American Coinage 1909-1915 (2007); and Renaissance of American Coinage 1916-1921 (2005). Author of A Guide Book of Peace Dollars (2009). Co-author with Augsburger and Orosz of Truth Seeker: The Life of Eric P. Newman (2015). It received the NLG award for “Book-of-the Year." Author of Fads, Fakes & Foibles (2021).
Served on Citizen’s Coinage Advisory Committee 2008-2012. Member of the Rittenhouse Society.
In 2021 he was on the Coin World list of The Most Influential People in Numismatics 1960-2020. He returned to the list in 2024.
He was named ANA Numismatist of the Year in 2023.
bio by email 2010; CCAC website
Source credit: Pete Smith, American Numismatic Biographies
