QUERY: DEALER PAUL S. SZEGO

In a recent Kolbe & Fanning sale I purchased an auction catalog of NYC dealer Paul S. Szego's sale of 06/19/1937. This was his only auction sale, so I was trying to find some information on him, but, with little luck. Szego's address was 812 Broadway. I checked both The Numismatist and The Numismatic Scrapbook magazines of that year for his ads, but nothing. He may have some connection with Stack's, as the catalog cover looks much like the Stack sale catalogs of that period.

I seem to remember reading that Stack's sold his coins at a later date. However, looking at the Gengerke list of sale consignors, I came up empty again. So perhaps our readers may have some information on this dealer.

I found his name on an ANA membership list in the 1950's. He seems to have left the coin business, and was living in Virginia. His obituary was in the Feb. 1961 Numismatist. He died Dec 24, 1960. It does not state his age. It states that he was an authority on Greek and Roman coins, having written articles and pamphlets on them, and had won prizes with his exhibits.

I did find reference in P. O. Sigler's Numismatic Bibliography to a book Szego wrote in 1937, Collecting Greek Coins.

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Collecting Greek Coins by Paul S. Szego, PH.D. 1937 (https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/ancient_numismatic_enterprise/9/
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