The Attributers and Authors
Mike Diamond has been collecting error coins since 1997 and has been researching and writing about them since 1999. He has written numerous articles for Errorscope, Coin World, and other publications. He was previously the President of CONECA and moderator of the CONECA Error-Variety Coin Forum. In 2001 he started the Error Coin Information Exchange (Yahoo: Groups) and has hosted it ever since. Mike writes the weekly column “Collector’s Clearinghouse” for Coin World. He also compiled a 20-page comprehensive listing of error and varieties that covers every conceivable type. Over the years, Mike has discovered many new error types and advanced the understanding of many more.
Bob Piazza is currently a staff member, attributer, photographer, and forum moderator for coppercoins.com. He has been actively involved in numismatics for the past 40+ years. His passion is variety collecting although he does dabble in the error aspect of the hobby as well. He maintains a very large collection of Lincoln cent varieties.
Bob was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1956 where he grew up until enlisting in the US Air Force. He served over 22 years in the Air Force until retiring as a First Sergeant in 1996. Since his retirement, he has worked as a home builder in Northwest Florida.
Bob is well known in a lot of numismatic circles for his work with Charles Daughtrey with Coppercoins.com and BJ Neff with Traildies.com. He has been involved in maintaining the Coppercoins and Traildies web sites, as well as contributing stories, data, and photography to those web sites and many other printed books and guides. Bob is also a forum moderator for the Lincoln Cent Resource (LCR).
Jason Cuvelier is an artist who was born in Colorado in 1973. At the age of 10 he became interested in type collecting U.S. coins from pocket change and was encouraged by his grandfather, a lifelong collector of coins himself. Always a collector of something, from comic books to action figures and stamps, numismatic varieties won out and became his primary interest. In the last few years Jason has been able to combine his expertise with photography and Photoshop to document hundreds of different varieties and errors. Jason is currently serving on the CONECA BOD as the Board Secretary. Last year Jason contributed an essay to Wexler and Flynn’s Authoritative Reference on Lincoln Cents 2 and is a forum moderator and contributing photographer for the Lincoln Cent Resource LincolnCentResource.net and the CONECA forums. Jason also maintains his own photography website of varieties and errors ErrorVariety.com and recently became involved with Traildies.com.
Jason currently is an artist educator at a high school in Chappaqua, NY. He received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1995, an MFA from Yale University in 1998. Jason taught drawing and painting as a Lecturer at Yale from 1999-2001, worked at Christie’s Auction House in New York from 2001-2007.
BJ Neff was born in New York in the year 1943 and began collecting stamps in my early years. However, BJ stopped collecting when he enlist in the United States Navy in 1962. For the next 21 years he was with the Submarine Service, serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He retired in 1982 from my last command in Hawaii. After spending another 13 years in the Aloha state, his wife Jeanie and BJ moved to Florida where we now live.
After retiring from the service, the collecting bug bit him again. This time the hobby of choice was numismatics. His interest in variety coins stems from the discovery of a 2004 Lincoln cent, with a DDO and DDR.
BJ is fortunate to have a wife who has an interest in collecting gold coins. He is an active member of ANA, Central Florida Coin Club, CONECA, Florida United Numismatists (BOD) and Numismatists Literary Guild. I am also an attributer for Coppercoins.
For die clash attributions, please send to:
Robert Neff
321 Kingslake Dr.
DeBary, Florida 32713