Who can give me some info on Phil Peck collection?

Hi, I bought from CNG auction coins coming from the Phil Peck collection. As I consider that preserving These is part of a tradition who can help me to know about this collector , history and perhaps you got some links to share about him or this collection ?
Thanks

 

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I believe @Orfew may be able to give you some info on this.

 

Hope he will read that post to help on it.

 

or you can PM him! I know he has some info.

 

Thanks have send him a PM

 

Not sure but Phil Peck and the Morris Collection maybe the same.

 

What is the Morris collection? CNG quote it too but I couldn’t find Infos.

 

Yes, they are the same person/collection. No one on CoinTalk seems to know the story of why some of his coins are being sold under "The Morris Collection" moniker. I picked up a half dozen "Morris Collection" coins recently... oodles of ex Phil Peck coins have been on the market lately.

 

Dunno. I have seen "morris collection" before. I just googled "+phil peck" coin collection.

 

I see some search hits for Phil Peck (tied to numismatics) but would prefer to have info from a trusted source so I wrote to CNG. They've sold a number of coins with that pedigree so hopefully they can provide a bio. I'll report back in this thread.

 

I saw that there were a thread in 2019 with the same question who is behind the Morris collection, It is to my opinion a collector but seems a secret..

 

Thanks that will be interesting really

 

Collecting Roman coins (and some others) was the central interest of Phil Peck's life. After a BA at Princeton in 1964, he became curator of the Chase Manhattan Bank's Money Museum in New York City for several years, then acquired a master's degree in library science and spent the rest of his working life as librarian for various institutions or firms in New York. I have known him since my freshman year at Princeton in 1962/3, when he met one of my roommates who told him that I too collected Roman coins! I have lost touch with him over the last twenty years or so, but understand that he had to be moved to an assisted living facility a couple of years ago and could no longer collect coins. His brother consigned the bulk of his large coin collection to Heritage, who sold it under the pseudonym "the Morris Collection".

 

Many thanks to explain all about. Under each collection there are a man and it is for me important and I will love his Roman coins I got from his collection as he was loving them. And when I will saw them I think about all the passionate collector he was.

I am grateful of your explanation.

 

Thank you for the information. I got some coins from that collection and I am pleased to know about "The Morris Collection."

 

Morris was Phil's older brother, according to my octogenarian informant who knew everyone in the 1960s New York collecting scene.