"He was a CPA and was well known and well liked by paper money collectors. He wrote at least one book, South Carolina Obsolete Notes and Scrip, published in 2003 and printed for him by Midlands Printing, Inc., in Camden, S.C. where he lived. It was one of the first books on paper money to be illustrated full size in color.

"Austin Moses Sheheen, Jr, a fixture and leader among paper money collecting and publishing died Saturday, August 29. 2020. Austin was a collector of paper money for more than seventy years. His greatest collecting passion was the paper money of South Carolina, but he collected Military Payment Certificates and other areas as well.

"He wrote a catalog of South Carolina paper money, owned and published the backbone of our hobby--the Bank Note Reporter. His tenure at the helm of the BNR came at a critical time in the history of the publication. He bought the paper from Grover C. Criswell and sold it to Chester Krause. He served as president of the Society of Paper Money Collectors and treasurer of the American Numismatic Association.

"Austin was a successful business man and devoted family man. He is survived by his wife, Joan, of many decades, seven daughters twenty five grandchildren and thirty-three great-grandchildren."

"Another loss to the community. Austin was a South Carolina specialist; he published South Carolina Obsolete Notes and Scrip in 2003. I got on his good side early when I found a previously-unknown note from SC in a Portland, Oregon junk box and sold it to him at the next Memphis. I had no idea how good it was when I bought it; I just thought he might have a home for it.

"I don't remember when I first met Austin, but since the third ANA I attended was in Atlanta ('77) and the next one in Houston, it was probably at one of those shows. Not long after, Grover Criswell was ready to sell the Bank Note Reporter, and Austin bought it. Someplace in there Fred and Austin created the BNRPress to compliment the paper. Fred was the publisher. Of course, Krause Publications ended up with BNR, but Fred retained the book publishing side of the firm (KP did not need another imprint), so BNR Press moved to Port Clinton.

"The last time I recall seeing Austin was at FUN 2018, where I bought a copy of the book mentioned above. Despite being 14 years old, it was new to me. He was no doubt at the ANA shows between then and now, but I am so busy at ANA conventions that I am not able to walk the floor and visit with folks. Soft-spoken, plain-spoken, and a pleasure to talk to—that's how I remember AUSTIN M. SHEHEEN, JR."

"I first met Austin in 1985 at a coin show being held in Columbia, SC at the old Holiday Inn Hotel across from the Carolina Coliseum. I had just become interested in collecting trade tokens and had developed a plan to write my first book on the subject. I was 28 years old, still wet behind the ears as a numismatist, but had a certain degree of enthusiasm that Austin must have picked up on. I had learned from another source that Austin had just purchased a collection of tokens from Randy Chambers, a pioneering collector of South Carolina tokens who had amassed the largest group around. Anyway, after explaining my plans to write a book on the subject, Austin proceeded to give me unfettered access to his holdings, and soon allowed me to take the entire collection home with me to catalog and photograph at my leisure! This is the kind of person Austin was - kind, generous, and always eager to share his time and expertise with anyone who asked."

"I was very sad to hear the news even though I didn't know him well, just scattered meetings at coin shows and some dealings with South Carolina tokens I was collecting at the time. He was an upbeat, positive person and fun to be around. Well liked and respected by all who knew him."