Press Release
Gallery Mint Museum Selects Board of Directors
For Release: August 10, 2005
Contact: Mike Ellis 888-558-6468
Gallery Mint Museum Selects Board of Directors
Scholars, museum professionals among well-known team
(Eureka Springs, AR)—The Gallery Mint Museum Foundation continues towards its goal of establishing the premier minting museum in the United States with the selection of its first Board of Directors. Agreeing to serve on the twelve-member Board are historians, minting scholars and museum professionals whose names are already familiar in the numismatic world.
The new GMM Board includes Erik Goldstein, Curator of Mechanical Arts and Numismatics at Colonial Williamsburg; John Kraljevich, numismatic researcher; Dick Johnson, founding editor of Coin World and widely published author on medals and minting; U.S. Mint historian Robert Julian; Greg Lambousy, Director of Collections at the Louisiana State Museum; Ron Landis, noted die engraver and visionary founder of Gallery Mint, Inc.; Chris Madden, intaglio engraver with the Bureau of Printing and Engraving; John Nebel, computer guru and numismatic photographer; Edward C. Rochette, Executive Director emeritus of the American Numismatic Association and founder of the ANA’s Summer Seminars; Bob Evans, Chief Scientist, Conservator and Exhibitor of the S. S. Central America “Ship of Gold,” Timothy Grat, Chief Coiner and long time employee of the Gallery Mint and Mike Ellis, Editor of the “Cherrypickers’ Guide to Rare Die Varieties, Fourth Editon, Volume I,” current president of CONECA and error coin authenticator for ICG.
Board President Ron Landis noted that the new, non-profit numismatic museum was careful to select individuals with impeccable academic reputations and a passion for minting technology to serve on the Board. “This is a ‘Dream Team’ with a clear understanding of museums, numismatics and minting. We are going to move very fast in reaching our goals,” he said.
For more information about Gallery Mint Museum Foundation, contact Mike Ellis at POB 101, Eureka Springs, AR 72632; telephone 888-558-MINT; FAX 479-253-5056; or via e-mail at gmmmike@arkansas.net.
