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George Stephen Cuhaj (Long Island City, New York, January 8, 1960) is an American numismatic catalog editor currently as Vice-President-Cataloging, with Archives International Auctions in Ft. Lee, NJ.

From 1994-2015 he was editor for the Standard Catalog of World Coins and Standard Catalog of World Paper Money series of books, and author of the Standard Price Guide to U.S. Scouting Collectables. Graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, New York City Community College (now New York City Technical Collrge), and Baruch College. He serves as archivist for the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation.

From 1982-1989 he served as computer systems operator at the American Numismatic Society, New York. Cataloging the museum's collection onto their Prime computer system funded thru Harry W. Bass, Jr. From October 1988-December 1989 he was chief usher at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, but after monthly Gay protests and a December 1989 Act-up "Die in" in the center asle, opted for something different. In January 1990-June 1994 he was catalog production manager for Stack's Rare Coins of New York. Some of the noteable 'name' catalogs he worked on were those for the collections of Floyd Starr, Herman Halpern, Alan Lovejoy and Reed Hawn. Since 1994 he has been a resident of Iola, Wisconsin and was a numismatic catalog editor with Krause Publications / F+W Media / F+W Communications / F+W an ecommerce community.

Medallic Sculpture - NSS, AMSA and FIDEM
Cuhaj has been active in the American Medallic Sculpture Society since its founding in 1983. Serving as its secretary, treasurer and its president in 1994 and 2009-2010. He has been honored with Allied Professional membership in the National Sculpture Society (1989). An active member, he has attended the AMSA Hartford workshop and the first two Trout Run workshops. In 2007-08 he participated in the Gilroy Roberts Fellowship at the ANA, and in October-November 2013 the Slovak National Bank's Sculpture Symposium in Kremnica, Slovakia.

With AMSA, he has participated in exhibitions at the American Numismatic Assocaition Museum in Colorado Springs, Co.; American Numismatic Society, New York, NY; Brookgreen Gardens, SC; Cast Iron Gallery, New York, NY; National Sculpture Society, New York, NY; Newark Museum, Newark, NJ.

FIDEM, the internaitonal medallic sculputre organization has exhibited his work at the shows in London (1992), Budapest (1994), Neuchatel (1997), The Hague (2000), Paris (2002), Sexial (2004), Colorado Springs (2007), Tampre (2010), Glasgow (2012) and Sofia (2014). At FIDEM exhibitions he sponsors an award to a deserving artist under the age of 30. This award has been presented to James Keating(2002), Natasha Radclif(2004), (2007), (2010), (2012) Hugo Maciel(2014). He has given lecture presentations at the 1997, 2007, 2010, 2014 congresses.

In the British Art Medal Association's publication THE MEDAL, he has authored biographical articles on Chester Martin, Eugene Daub and Don Everhart II.

Medallic Sculpture
Cuhaj has received commissions from the friends of Henry Grunthal, St. Benedict's Prep., National Order of the Arrow Confrence Ceremonies/Events Committee, Jack Kohler Campership Association.

His medallic art is in the collection of the American Numismatic Association, American Numismatic Society, British Museum, National BSA Museum, Newark Museum, Yale University.

Memberships
American Medallic Sculpture Association, AMSA, President 1994, 2009-2010 Fédération International de la Médaille, FIDEM American Numismatic Association, ANA National Sculpture Society, NSS Allied Professional member