The Scher Collection of Commemorative Medals

Dr. Stephen K. Scher, a world-renowned scholar of art history, grew up in New York City. He began collecting portrait medals as a graduate student at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where he earned his Master's degree. After completing his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1966, he went on to teach art history at Brown University, serving as chairman of the art department from 1972-73. He has organized two landmark exhibitions with The Frick Collection, NY, on the art of the portrait medal: The Currency of Fame (1994) and The Proud Republic: Dutch Medals of the Golden Age (1997). Christopher Eimer is British medal specialist, collector and dealer. He is the author of British Commemorative Medals and Their Values (1987, 2010), and An Introduction to Commemorative Medals (1989). Martin Hirsch is a lecturer, Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, and editor of Jahrbuch f r Numismatik und Geldgeschichte (Journal of Numismatics and Monetary History). Mark Jones is Master of St. Cross College, University of Oxford, and one-time director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London Jan Pelsdonk is curator of the Coin and Medal Collection, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands General Secretary, International Art Medal Federation, and former curator, Royal Coin Cabinet, Stockholm Chair, Art History Department, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich