OUR STAFF Stephen Album Paul Montz Director of Islamic & Early Indian Numismatics Director of World Coins Steve has been serving the Paul joined the staff in January numismatic community since 2011. He attended UC Davis 1960. In 1976 he began dealing from 1975-80, earning bachelor's nearly exclusively in Islamic and and master's degrees in Indian coins. He has authored Agricultural Science & several books including the Management and Agronomy, Catalogue of California Trade respectively. He began working Tokens, Volumes I & II in 1972 in the numismatic field in the and 1974 respectively. 1977 saw 1970's. In 1981, he founded the release of his complete rewrite of Marsden's Olde World Numismatics in Chico, CA, a business he Numismata Orientalia Illustrata, a guide to Islamic ran for 30 years, focusing on A-Z world coins, before and Oriental coins with values. In 1993 he published merging with Stephen Album Rare Coins. He has put A Checklist of Islamic Coins, which now in its second out price lists for many years and has been a fixture edition is the standard for collectors of Islamic coins. at major shows since the 1980's. Paul is a life Mr. Album is currently a senior fellow at the member of the American Numismatic Association Worcester College, Oxford, England, and in this and is a member of other organizations. He has been position has authored three of the ten volumes of the a contributing editor for the Standard Catalog of Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean (Museum) World Coins since 1998. Paul brings experience in beginning in 1999. In May of 2004 the Eberhard- general world coinage to the firm. Karls-Universität Tübingen in Germany honored Mr. [email protected] Album with a philosophiae doctoris honoris causae, an honorary doctoral degree in philosophy. Steve is Dr. Norman Douglas Nicol among the world's leading experts in Islamic and Cataloger Indian coins. [email protected] Joseph Lang Doug worked as Steve's Director of East Asian & Later Indian Numismatics assistant full-time from 1981 until 1999, after which he Joe is a member of the American moved back to his home area of Numismatic Association (ANA), northeastern Pennsylvania. as well as many smaller Doug began cataloging again numismatic associations. He has for Stephen Album Rare Coins been a full-time coin dealer in in 2006. Doug received a doctorate in Medieval California since 1987 and was Islamic History from the University of Washington first based in San Diego. Mr. (Seattle) in 1979 and during a subsequent post- Lang has been a contributing doctoral stay in Egypt, co-authored a catalog of the editor to various editions of coins and related items in the Egyptian National Krause publication's Standard Catalog of World Library, Cairo (1982). During the years Doug worked Coins, German Coins, and World Paper Money for for Steve in California, he researched and compiled over a decade. He has also contributed to past his Corpus of Fatimid Coins, which was published in editions of the Monetary Research Institute's 2006. He has been a senior research fellow at Oxford Banker's Guide to Foreign Currency. Mr. Lang has University since 2001, having agreed to write five of specialized in world coins since 1989 with expertise the proposed ten volumes of the Sylloge of the in Chinese and other Asian cast coins and later Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean. For many years, he machine struck Chinese coins. He is also one of the has contributed to the various Krause-Mishler main catalogers on Imperial Mughal, Indian Princely catalogs, including two editions of The Standard States and Colonial Indian coinages. Catalog of German Coins. He continues to write new [email protected] content for the catalog listings of many European countries, as well as revisions of existing entries for Europe, the Islamic countries and India. Michael Barry Kate Polacci Numismatist / Office Manager Shipping & Receiving Mike joined the company in June Kate started working for the of 2008. Mike's background is in company in June 2011. She is in Archaeology, having completed charge of handling all of our his BA in Anthropology & outgoing shipments, as well as Archaeology at the University of helping to fill orders and other California, Santa Cruz in 2007. aspects of the production of our Prior to attending UC Santa Cruz catalogs. [email protected] Mike attended the local Santa Rosa Junior College, completing an AA in Anthropology as well as an AS in Natural Sciences in 2005. Mike's main duties with the Danica Rodarmel company include: photography of coins, production Numismatic Conservation of fixed-price and auction catalogs, e-bay sales, vCoins sales, processing orders, as well as assisting Danica joined the company in with sales and inventory control. He is a member of October of 2008. She is currently the American Numismatic Association (ANA), and is a student at the University of also a member of the Society for American California at Berkeley where she Archaeology. [email protected] is completing the second half of her undergraduate coursework in Jocelyn McCord English. She hopes to pursue a Accounting & Payroll career in writing creative nonfiction. She is our resident Jocelyn joined the firm in 2007 numismatic conservationist and is continually fine- and is responsible for the tuning her knowledge of the nuances involved in coin bookkeeping department. Jocelyn restoration. is in charge of all of our accounting and payroll tasks. She handles payments, overdue accounts, account inquiries, refunds for returns, and other financial aspects of the company. All accounting questions or issues should be addressed to Jocelyn. [email protected] Brian Henderson Photography Brian joined the company in July 2010. He is a fine art photographer and avid collector of obscure ephemera. He entered the art world via his interest in skateboarding, and has been involved in the skate scene for 25 years. Brian uses his expertise in photography to create our catalogs as well as employing his artfully mastered people skills in handling customer relations. brian@stevealbum.