Elena Stolyarik, the American Numismatic Society’s collections manager, serving up a tray of recovered Huntington coins that had been sold in March by the Hispanic Society of America
Photo by Lee Rosenbaum
Richard Doty, senior curator of numismatics for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Numismatic Collection at the National Museum of American History, responds to A Visit to the ANS Vault: American Numismatic Society Sorts the Coins Recovered from the Dispersed Huntington Collection:
I’m glad it turned out at least semi-okay. When something like this [the Hispanic Society of America’s disposal of its founder Archer Huntington‘s coin collection] happens, it throws the credibility of every other museum into question. And museums have enough to contend with these days as it is.