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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The_Cave_Troll, post: 1410098, member: 1674&quot;]To begin with I never met the man and as a father of young boys that is probably a good thing.&nbsp; I am appreciative that the justice system finally incarcerated him, though if the stories are true it was much too late, because hissexual preferences were not a secret, a long time before he was finally jailed.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that ickiness aside he was a very talented numismatist and his published works speak for themselves, as a number of numismatists here have pointed out.&nbsp; My real objection to the man is that much of his numismatics have been debunked.&nbsp; His population estimates seem to have been created from limited (or no) actual data in many cases.&nbsp; Also he was willing to put his name behind all kinds of coins that he shouldn&#039;t have.&nbsp; By this I mean that he would write formal letters for coins that said, &quot;I Walter Breen have examined such-and-such a coin and have determined it to be something-important. Signed, Walter Breen&quot;&nbsp; Unfortunately those letters aren&#039;t worth anything because he would do it for just about anything.&nbsp; I have personally handled a number of coins with letters like that and without exception NGC and PCGS disagree (rightly so) with Breen&#039;s evaluation of the coin as a specimen or a unique branch proof, or a test striking, or whatever.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is a huge pain to tell an heir that not only is the item not as described by their now deceased loved one but it was also mis-described to him by a popular and prominent numismatic dealer.&nbsp; That conversation rarely ends well and it is this malfeasance in the way he handled people&#039;s numismatic trust that leads me to disregard his professional work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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