If you visit other message boards, you may have read about the death of coin dealer Steven Tanenbaum in the New York City rampage of February 11. You can find an obituary on the MSNS website here. Steven Tanenbaum was MSNS Life Member 383; joined in 1981. He contributed to four of the basic references for our hobby: Russell Rulau's Hard Times Tokens, and then the expansion of that into United States Tokens 1790-1890; and both of Katherine Jaeger's recent books on U.S. Medals and Tokens from Whitman Publishing. As is to be expected, over the years he handled many rarities and was considered by other dealers to be the person to look to for attribution and citation.
Could have sworn there was a thread here about it, guess it was deleted. My condolences to his family and friends.
It was not deleted. The problem is the spelling of the name. Steven Tanenbaum appeared here as "Stephen Tannenbaum" and now as "Taunenbaum." The thread you sought is here: http://www.cointalk.com/t156267/ "Dealer Stephen Tannenbaum Killed in NYC Yesterday" from nerarities. Also now a new thread, "RIP Steve Taunebaum" http://www.cointalk.com/t157531/ from vnickels
