![]() ![]() He and his wife Sharon raised four children: Daniel, Jessica, James, and Kevin.īeyond his professional life and the world of numismatics, Syd actively supported local history and art organizations around Bucks County, Pennsylvania, serving as Executive Vice President of the Doylestown Historical Society and Chair of the Michener Museum of Art in Doylestown, as well as on the board of the local Heritage Conservancy. ![]() Syd spent most of his adult life in Doylestown, Pennsylvania and later split time between there and a home in Amelia Island, Florida. He founded his own company, Sytex, Inc., in 1988 it grew to employ 3,000 people as The Sytex Group and was acquired by Lockheed Martin in 2005. Syd spent five years at MIT and earned his SB and SM degrees, an engineering background that prepared him for a long and lettered career in the defense and intelligence industries. Syd was a life member of the American Numismatic Association and Numismatic Bibliomania Society (the latter of which he also served as a board member) and held membership for many years in Early American Coppers, the Medal Collectors of America, and the Token and Medal Society.Īfter a youth as an Air Force brat (he was born at Smoky Hill AFB in Kansas), Syd graduated high school in Warsaw, Indiana and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was honored with election to the Rittenhouse Society in 2017. Huntington Medal, in 2020 he was also an ANS Fellow and a founding member of the Augustus B. ![]() The American Numismatic Society awarded Syd their highest honor, the Archer M. His Numismatic Commemorations of the 200th Birthday of George Washington in 1932 was published posthumously by the ANS in 2021. The Hibernia Coinage of William Wood was published in 2007, followed by The Rosa Americana Coinage of William Wood in 2011, French Coinages Specifically for Colonial America in 2015, and Saint Patrick Coinage in 2018. All four of his books were published by C4 (the Colonial Coin Collectors Club) and he served as the editor of the C4 Newsletter from 2004 to 2015. Syd was best known in the numismatic community as an advanced collector, president of the American Numismatic Society (ANS) from 2012 to 2020, and the author of four standard references on early American numismatics. Many of us - and many of you - were fortunate enough to know him. Martin, one of the world’s leading experts on early American coins, passed away in January 2021.
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