Cuhaj, George
(L2026)
Born in Long Island City, New York. New York Community College (AAS) and Baruch College CUNY (BS).
He conducted several mail bid sales thru the AVA's Fare Box while in Long Island City in the 1980s.
Computer systems operator at the American Numismatic Society 1982-1988. Chief usher at St. Patrick’s Cathedral 1988-89. Cataloguer for Stack’s 1990-1994. Cataloguer for Krause Publications in Iola, Wisconsin. Editor of the Standard Catalog of World Coins and Standard Catalog of World Paper Money and several other titles, 1994-2015. Re-located to NYC to care for his mom (Goodson Elder Care) and was Vice President-Cataloging with Archives International Auctions in Ft. Lee, New Jersey in 2015-2016. Relocated mom to Wisconsin in 2016 and cared for her until death in 2022. Since then, selling mostly tokens on eBay. Since 2023 has been summer curator at the Higgins Museum of National Bank Notes in Okoboji, Iowa.
Collector of scouting medals and tokens. Author of Standard Price Guide to U. S. Scouting Collectibles (2001).
Lead editor for the Boy Scouts of America (Now Scouts America) for the Coin Collecting Merit Badge Booklet since 2002.
Organized the Coin Collecting Marit Badge Booth at the National Jamborees from 1981-2005 (once every four years).
Collector of Pennsylvania Railroad medals and Medals of the Hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the United States.
Archivist for the Brooklyn Technical High School Alumni Association.
Eagle Scout, Vigil Honor Member from Suanhacky Lodge #49, Silver Beaver award, BSA from the Queens Council, GNYC.
He was named a Numismatic Ambassador by FUN in 2015. In 2022 he received an ANA Glenn Smedley Memorial Award.
President of American Medallic Sculpture Association in 1994 and 2009. US Delegate to FIDEM (International Art Medal Association) since 2023.
profile: NN/WWH 5/2/81
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2018Pennsylvania Railroad Medal for Heroic Service
A history of the Pennsylvania railroad medal, with biographies of medal recipients.
3/8/2026Medals of the Hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States
This catalog documents medals issued by Catholic dioceses, archdioceses, and church institutions in the United States from 1789 through 2020. Organized primarily by diocese, the work identifies and describes medals that commemorate bishops, cardinals, cathedrals, jubilees, church anniversaries, and other significant ecclesiastical events. The catalog includes medals ranging from small medalets to large presentation pieces and captures both widely distributed commemoratives and more obscure issues from diocesan archives, collectors, and institutional collections.
The study further situates these medals within the broader development of the Catholic Church in the United States. Beginning with the establishment of the first U.S. diocese in Baltimore in 1789 and the subsequent expansion of dioceses across the country, the book traces how medallic art has been used to commemorate clerical leadership, cathedral construction, anniversaries, and institutional milestones. The result is both a reference guide for collectors and a historical record of American Catholic hierarchy expressed through medallic art.
