Henry Beaufoy was a wealthy British industrialist, philanthropist and Member of Parliament. In addition to an outstanding library of 25,000 volumes, he also had an important coin collection, which was sold by Christie, Manson & Woods in 1909. An article by John Voukelatos.

Alden Scott Boyer started with revolutionary period currency and finally concentrated on classical Greek coins. For what he collected beyond coins, he purchased a bank building in Chicago to house the Boyer Museum of American Curiosities.

Harry X Boosel was a collector of U.S. coins. He wanted to be called “Mr. 1873” because of his extensive study of the coinage of that year, to the eventual exclusion of almost everything else.

Coins were a passion for the trained doctor Max Blaschegg. In almost eight decades he built up an extensive collection of several thousand coins forming a classic universal collection, ranging from ancient Greece to contemporary Euro coins.