Eric Von Klinger was a friend and consignor to a number of Lake Books numismatic literature sales. He was a very knowledgeable guy and always eager to share those tidbits whenever we met. He will be sorely missed in the numismatic community.

It is with great sorrow that I read of Eric von Klinger’s passing. I wondered why he had not answered my last e-mail. He had told me of his cancer and at that time was not sure if the treatments had put it into remission.

I have great memories of the 2004 ANA convention in Pittsburgh. This was when I met E-Sylum Editor Wayne Homren and Eric. We spent some time discussing attributes I needed to include in my forthcoming book on the Confederate cent, among other topics. I found that both Eric and I hated footnotes but disliked endnotes even more, the book has footnotes.

Earlier that day, George Corell and myself had given our Confederate cent presentation. As part of this, we introduced Katie (Yeager) DeSilva to the numismatic community. For those who may not know, Katie is a great-great granddaughter of George H. Lovett, who was Robert Lovett, Jr.’s brother. Beth Deisher, had assigned Eric to cover our presentation and interview Katie. Eric got his interview and liked the work that George and I were doing on Confederate coinage.

Rest in Peace my good friend!

My wife, Sharon, and I are saddened to learn of Eric's death. He was a good friend and a former co-worker of mine at Krause Publications.

He was very knowledgeable about coins, which you could tell just by a short conversation with him. He was also passionate about the hobby and about writing.

I hadn't seen him since an ANA a number of years ago, but I often corresponded with him by email, in which he would always end his replies, no matter how bleak the news, with a hopeful, "Cheers, Eric."