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Stephen Album - Partner
Steve has been serving the numismatic community since 1960. In 1976 he began dealing nearly exclusively in Islamic
and Indian coins. He has authored several books including the Catalogue of California Trade Tokens,
Volumes I & II in 1972 and 1974 respectively. 1977 saw the release of his complete rewrite of Marsden's
Numismata Orientalia Illustrata, a guide to Islamic and Oriental coins with values. In 1993 he published
A Checklist of Islamic Coins, which now in its second edition is the standard for collectors of Islamic coins.
Mr. Album is currently a senior fellow at the Worcester College, Oxford, England, and in this position has authored
three of the ten volumes of the Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean (Museum) beginning in 1999. In May
of 2004 the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen in Germany honored Mr. Album with a
philosophiae doctoris honoris causae, an honorary doctoral degree in philosophy. Steve is among the world's
leading experts in Islamic and Indian coins.
steve@stevealbum.com
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Joseph Lang - Partner
Joe is a member of the American Numismatic Association (ANA),
as well as many smaller numismatic associations. He has been a full-time coin dealer in California since
1987. First based in San Diego, Mr. Lang is now located in Santa Rosa and is a business partner with
Stephen Album, the leading dealer of Islamic and Indian coins. Mr. Lang has been a contributing editor
to various editions of Krause publication's Standard Catalog of World Coins, German Coins, and World
Paper Money for over a decade. He has also contributed to past editions of the Monetary Research
Institute's Banker's Guide to Foreign Currency. Mr. Lang has specialized in world coins
since 1989 with expertise in Chinese and Vietnamese cast cash coins with an emphasis on Chinese coins
of the Tang Dynasty and later. He is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys hiking, backpacking, mountaineering,
and cycling. As well as having a love for the outdoors, he is a percussionist and performs with two
symphonic orchestras, the American Philharmonic based in Sonoma County, California
and the Bohemian Club Symphony Orchestra based in San Francisco.
joe@stevealbum.com
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Mike Barry - Associate
Mike joined the company in June of 2008. The job marks his first entry into the world of numismatics.
Mike's background is in Archaeology, having completed his BA in Anthropology & Archaeology at the
University of California at Santa Cruz in 2007. Prior to attending UC Santa Cruz Mike attended the
local Santa Rosa Junior College, completing an AA in Anthropology as well as an AS in Natural Sciences
in 2005. He was raised in Cloverdale and presently resides in Santa Rosa. Mike's interests include
sustainable living, gardening, camping & hiking, computers, and attending a wide variety of concerts.
His initial interests in numismatics include all varieties of coins from India. Mike's main duties
with the company include: photography of coins, production of fixed-price and auction
catalogs, as well as assisting with sales and curation of our inventory. He is a member of the
American Numismatic Association (ANA), and is also a member of the Society for American Archaeology.
mike@stevealbum.com
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Dr. Norman Douglas (Doug) Nicol - Cataloger
Doug worked as Steve's assistant full-time from 1981 until 1999, after which he moved back to his home
area of northeastern Pennsylvania where he opened his own business as a professional genealogist.
For a number of years since then, Doug has helped Steve with the annual show in New York City, then
from 2006, has been cataloging coins for Steve and Joe. Doug received a doctorate in Medieval Islamic History
from the University of Washington (Seattle) in 1979 and during a subsequent post-doctoral stay in Egypt,
co-authored a catalog of the coins and related items in the Egyptian National Library, Cairo (1982).
During the years Doug worked for Steve in California, he researched and compiled his
Corpus of Fatimid Coins, which was published in 2006. He has been a senior research fellow at
Oxford University since 2001, having agreed to write five of the proposed ten volumes of the
Sylloge of the Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean. For many years, he has contributed to the various
Krause-Mishler catalogs, including two editions of The Standard Catalog of German Coins. He continues
to write new content for the catalog listings of many European countries, as well as revisions of existing
entries for Europe, the Islamic countries and India.
ndnicol@epix.net
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Jocelyn McCord - Accounting & Payroll
Jocelyn is in charge of all of our accounting and payroll tasks. She handles payments, overdue accounts,
account inquiries, refunds for returns, and other financial aspects of the company. All accounting questions
or issues should be addressed to either Jocelyn or to Danica Rodarmel.
jocelyn@stevealbum.com
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Danica Rodarmel - Associate
Danica joined the company in October of 2008. She is currently a student at Santa Rosa Junior College, where she is completing the first half of her undergraduate coursework in Economics. She plans to transfer to either the University of California at Berkeley or to UCLA. Her job duties include serving our customer base to the absolute best of her ability, continuously improving the organization of the office, handling accounts receivable, managing delinquent accounts, processing incoming orders, preparing our inventory for sale, assisting our resident photographer, livening up the atmosphere, as well as an assortment of other highly important tasks.
danica@stevealbum.com
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Ally McCord - Office Assistant
Ally started working for the company in January of 2009. She is our invaluable helper for various tasks
such as placing our coins into their respective holders, filling and updating price tags, cleaning any
incoming inventory that has damage from PVC or other improper holders, counting out sets of coins for our many
different coin series designed by Joseph Lang, mailing out our monthly price lists and auction catalogs, and
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