The ANS Gala 2021
Channel: American Numismatic Society
Date: 2021-01-20

Thursday, January 14, 2021, the American Numismatic Society held its annual Gala celebration, virtually, in memory of benefactors Mark and Lottie Salton. The Gala was held via Zoom, to members of the Society and their guests.

The event featured keynote speaker Jacob Goldstein—NPR correspondent, co-host of the Planet Money podcast, and author of the new book MONEY: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing (5:37). Purchase Jacob Goldstein’s Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing at https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/jacob-goldstein/money/9780316417198/. The program also featured a new video about ANS history, The ANS: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (13:39) and a presentation on the honorees by Dr. Ira Rezak (26:46) and Dr. Alan Stahl (36:13). The event closed with a special raffle, including Greco-Roman coins, medals from the Medallic Art Company (MACO) and other modern-period objects, cut sapphires, signed books and much more.

Honorees Mark and Lottie Salton, both born in Germany, were forced by the Nazis to flee their homeland. Each managed to reach the United States in the 1940s, where they met and later married in 1948. They enjoyed an extraordinarily close partnership until Mark’s death 57 years later. Though he came from a family of bankers and numismatists, Mark had to start from scratch in America, eventually receiving a graduate degree in International Banking. Lottie, who had been only 14 years old when she escaped Germany, did not share his scholarly background. Once married, she not only enthusiastically adopted Mark’s numismatic fascination but also acquired extensive expertise of her own. Together, they pursued a wide range of interests including a special pleasure in medallic art of the Renaissance and early Baroque.

At the ANS, Mark Salton was a Life Fellow, Chairman of the Huntington Award Committee, and a member of the J. Sanford Saltus Medal Committee. Lottie and Mark were also magnanimous donors, giving to the ANS many gifts of coins and medals as well as contributions to its appeals. Very soon after Mark’s death in 2005, Lottie became an ANS Honorary Life Fellow and established the Mark M. Salton memorial lecture series at the ANS. Before she died at age 96 in the spring of 2020, in one final extraordinary gesture of largesse, Lottie Salton named the ANS in her will, leaving the Society a bequest of $500,000 to help sustain a chair for Medieval and Renaissance numismatics. Her bequest is a remarkable legacy from a remarkable couple, who will always be remembered very fondly by those who were privileged to know them.

Past recipients of the Trustees’ Award include such notable numismatists and donors as Ms. Shelby White and Mr. Leon Levy, Mr. Jamie Stewart, Mr. Kenneth L. Edlow, Mr. George Kolbe, Mr. Q. David Bowers, Mr. Chester L. Krause, Mr. Donald G. Partrick, Mr. Harvey Stack, Mr. Victor England, Jr., Mr. Ira Goldberg, Mr. Larry Goldberg, Mr. Harlan J. Berk, Mr. Roger S. Siboni, Mrs. Marian Scheuer Sofaer and the Honorable Abraham D. Sofaer, Mrs. Elizabeth Forbes Hazard Scott and Mr. Stanley DeForest Scott, and Mr. and Mrs. John W. Adams, Anthony J. Terranova, the Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society and the Newman Numismatic Portal, the Rosen Family, Mike Gasvoda, and Richard M. Beleson.

Every year the American Numismatic Society raises critical revenue through the Gala. These funds are used to further the Society’s mission of supporting research and education in numismatics.

The American Numismatic Society is deeply grateful to all our Gala sponsors for their generosity and participation.*

Benefactors
Kenneth & Mary Edlow
David & Jeannie Hendin
Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG
Numismatic Guaranty Corp.
Lawrence R. Stack – Stack Family
Antony Terranova
Mark Tomasko
Vilmar Numismatics

Patrons
Alain Baron, Numismatica Genevensis SA
Classical Numismatic Group, LLC
Carole Anne Menzi Collier
Dan & Connie Hamelberg
Heritage Auctions
Ute Wartenberg Kagan & Jonathan Kagan
Shanna Schmidt Numismatics Inc.
Stack’s Bowers Galleries

Raffle Donors
Keith Barron
Michael Beall
Victor England Jr.
Mary Lannin
Eric J. McFadden
Shanna Schmidt Numismatics Inc.
Edward J. Waddell, Ltd.
A-Peter C. Weiss

*List at time of posting. For information on additional supporters, please visit our website.

For information on the program, bios, raffle items and supporting the virtual event, please contact Austin Andrews at 212-571-4470, ext. 117; membership@numismatics.org; or visit the ANS website: numismatics.org/2021-ans-gala.

The American Numismatic Society, organized in 1858 and incorporated in 1865 in New York State, operates as a research museum under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and is recognized as a publicly supported organization under section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) as confirmed on November 1, 1970.