User:Dewardt

Roger deWardt Lane - Numismatist, Author and specilist in Modern World Dime Size Silver Coins. In 2008 he published his 40 year study of the small coins issued by countries from the timeline of Queen Victoria to Netherlands Antillies, which was the last country to issue a circulating small silver coin in the series. 'Encyclopedia Small Silver Coins' by Roger deWardt Lane contains 600 pages, a thousand enlarged illisturations of the coins and over an another thousand historical clip art from old history, geography and travel books.

Roger deWardt Lane, has been a long time member of the American Numismatic Society, New York. He has donated many interesting numismatic items to the society collection. A search of their database under 'dewardt' will display over 75 coins, medals and paper money item, including some scarce Japanese Traveler Check specimans. ANS URL is www.numismatics.org. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society of London, England.

He has contributed numismatic articles to Coin World and Numismatic International Bulletin and posted timely stories under the byline of 'Mutt and Jeff, Adventures in South Florida' on his two web sites. A search of 'dewardt' usually finds many stories.

The deWardt family name, has been traced back to an ancester, a dutch seaman, who jumped ship in 16th century off Gravsend, England and settled there as a publican. Direct desendents of this family also energrated to the states, with another branch of the family went off to the gold fields in Australia. Some of the family still reside in Gravesend.

Roger's great grandmother was a deWardt, thus the middle name passed on to him.