MORE ON AUTHOR BILL ANTON, JR.

The E-Sylum reported on the death of William T. Anton, Jr. in the issue of August 16, 2015. No obituary was mentioned. I tried on a couple of occasions to find one without success. He is not listed in the Social Security Death Index. I recently came upon additional information about Anton.

In the summer of 2015, Anton was drafting a new will with his estate to be distributed equally among his three children. He had an appointment in the afternoon of July 15 to meet his son-in-law and sign the papers with his attorney. He did not show up for the meeting, He died at home earlier in the day.

Anton was born in 1935. He graduated from Villanova University in 1957 and Harvard Business School in 1959. He operated Worldwide Promotions, Inc. for amateur and professional boxing.

In 1956 he competed as a weightlifter at the Olympic Games in Melbourne. He placed fourth with a benchpress of 440 lbs. Afterward he was known as “Mr. 400”.

Anton collected high quality colonial coins and specialized in the coinage and paper money of New Jersey. He contributed articles on the topic to The Colonial Newsletter. Others who know him offered their recollections in previous editions of The E-Sylum.

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
BILL ANTON HAS PASSED (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n33a06.html)
MORE ON AUTHOR BILL ANTON, JR. (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n34a18.html)

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