Mike Moran

Mike Moran is an award-winning numismatic author, lecturer, and researcher.  His article on the survival of the San Francisco Mint during the great earthquake of 1906 won the ANA's 2006 Heath Literary Award, and more recently, Mike has authored a 450-page masterwork on the artistic collaboration between Theodore Roosevelt and Augustus Saint Gaudens which won the PNG's prestigious Robert Friedberg Award.  Mike got his start in coin collecting from his grandfather in the 1950's.

He is a graduate of Purdue University and is currently a managing partner of Valley Acquisition, a major building products supplier in Western Colorado.  Among his other activities, Mike is the chair of the advisory board of the Art Museum at the University of Kentucky.