David E. Schenkman

Schenkman (born 1939) began collecting coins in 1949, and began his interest in tokens and medals in 1960. From 1975 to 1980 he was editor of the Copperhead Courier. Schenkman edited "A Survey of American Trade Tokens" in 1975. He authored “World of Exonumia” in Coin World between 1985 and 1988 and “Token Topics” to Numismatic News. He currently writes the "Tokens and Medals" column for The Numismatist and contributes articles to the Token and Medal Society's TAMS Journal.

Schenkman has received more than seventy literary awards, including seven Heath Literary Awards. Over his career he has written ten books, including Virginia Tokens (1980), which was the first book to catalog trade tokens from the state.

Schenkman served as President of both the Token and Medal Society and the Civil War Token Society, and has spent 18 years as an instructor at the American Numismatic Association's Summer Seminar.

He was inducted into the Numismatic Hall of Fame in 2015.