Mike Moran Senate Majority Leader Recommendation

Michael “Mike” Moran was appointed to the CCAC in 2011 based on the recommendation of the Senate Majority Leader.

Mike got his start in coin collecting from his grandfather in the 1950's, and is now 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. Mike also won the PNG's prestigious Robert Friedberg Award for his 450-page masterwork, “Striking Change” (2008) on the artistic collaboration between Theodore Roosevelt and Augustus Saint Gaudens. Additionally, in 2016, he won the Numismatic Literary Guild's award, Best U. S. Coin Book, for “1849: The Philadelphia Mint Strikes Gold” (2016) which he co-authored with Jeff Garrett.

Professionally, Mike is a managing partner of Valley Lumber, a major building products supplier in Western Colorado. He is also active in the oil and gas industry. Among his other activities, Mike is the former chair of the advisory board of the Art Museum at the University of Kentucky. He presently is serving a three-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, and graduated from Purdue University.