The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 12, March 21, 2005, Article 6

GEORGE FISHER, CHINESE COIN EXPERT

Bill Rosenblum writes (Saturday, March 19): George Fisher
passed away Friday afternoon. George was one of the leading
western authorities on early Chinese cash coins and other non
machine made Chinese coins. He had been an instructor at
the ANA Summer Seminar for many years and had spent an
even longer time as a weekly volunteer at the ANA museum.
He was also the author and publisher of Fisher's Deng a
compilation of Ding Fubao's book on the same subject. He
numbered, priced and arranged the book so that westerners
could have a basic understanding of the system.

More information will follow next week but I'm still in shock.
I had seen George on Thursday and while not well and weak
there was no indication that the end was so close. He had been
diagnosed with pancreatic cancer the previous week but had
been given 1 to 3 months to live. He lived 8 to 9 days after
that diagnosis."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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