Q. David Bowers
The author thanks the following people and organizations for help in the ways indicated:
Mrs. Abe (Molly) Kosoff, Sonnie and Dirk Frowein and Mike Kliman provided suggestions, comments, family reminiscences, and photographs. Additional photographs were supplied by Aubrey Bebee, Catherine Bullowa-Moore, Coin World (Margo Russell, Beth Deisher, and their staff), and Numismatic News (Cliff Mishler). The following contributed essays giving recollections of their involvement with Abe Kosoff, such being published in an appendix to the present volume: Aubrey Bebee, Kenneth E. Bressett, Catherine Bullowa-Moore, Donald Groves, Lee F. Hewitt, Mike Kliman, Paul L. Koppenhaver, Chet Krause, John J. Pittman, Ed Rochette, and Hans M.F. Schulman.
Margo Russell, long-term editor of Coin World, contributed the foreword to the book and also granted permission to use extensive excerpts from Abe's "Kosoff Commentary" column which appeared over a period of years in Coin World. Certain of these columns were later incorporated into a volume, Abe Kosoff Remembers, published by Sanford Durst. John J. Ford, Jr. provided information concerning the era of the 1940s and also supplied correspondence between Abe Kosoff and F.C.C. Boyd.
The following people furnished catalogues or provided listings of Abe Kosoff's publications: John Adams, John Bergman, George Kolbe, Denis Loring, and Cal Wilson.
Special credit goes to Margaret Graf, who compiled the author's extensive research notes and who typeset the text. In addition, typesetting, proofreading, and related graphics work was done by the Graphic Arts Department of Bowers and Merena Galleries, including Jane McCabe, Linda Heilig, and Sarah Whitten, with Anne Hassin contributing photographic skills. Liz Arlin and Jennifer Douglass helped with correspondence between the author and various contributors, while Beth Piper assisted with photocopying and organizing of files. Staff members of Auctions by Bowers and Merena, Inc., including Karl Hirtzinger, Michael Hodder, Robert Rubel, Jennifer Douglass, Jane Foran, and Lisa Simons, worked with the preparation of the sale of coins from Abe Kosoff's estate scheduled for November 1985. Raymond N. Merena, president of Auctions by Bowers and Merena, Inc. and Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., helped in many ways.
Note: The title of the book, ABE KOSOFF: DEAN OF NUMISMATICS, was suggested by Abe's daughter Sonnie. Whether to use "numismatics" or "numismatists" was discussed, but in the past the honorary title had appeared in print more often as "Dean of Numismatics," so that is the format used here.