About Us

Joseph Lang | Stephen Album | Doug Nicol | Mike Barry | Jocelyn McCord | Danica Rodarmel | Lucie White | Brian Henderson

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     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     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     Mike Barry - Associate Numismatist            Mike joined the company in June of 2008. Mike's background is in Archaeology, having completed his BA in Anthropology & Archaeology at the University of California, 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. Mike's main duties with the company include: photography of coins, production of fixed-price and auction catalogs, e-bay sales, vCoins sales, processing orders, as well as assisting with sales and curation of our inventory. He is a member of the American Numismatic Association (ANA). mike@stevealbum.com     Jocelyn McCord - Accounting & Payroll            Jocelyn joined the company in 2007. She 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 Jocelyn. jocelyn@stevealbum.com     Danica Rodarmel - Numismatic Conservation            Danica joined the company in October of 2008. She is currently a student at the University of California at Berkeley where she is completing the second half of her undergraduate coursework in English. She hopes to pursue a career in writing creative nonfiction. She is our resident numismatic conservationist and is continually fine-tuning her knowledge of the nuances involved in coin restoration. You can contact her at deardanica@gmail.com     Lucie White - Shipping & Receiving            Lucie started working for the company in September 2009. She is a master seamstress and owner of Luce Goods, a cycling accessory and apparel company. She is an avid cyclist and mother of two spectacular daughters. She is in charge of handling all of our outgoing shipments, as well as helping to fill orders and other aspects of the production of our catalogs. You may direct your shipping inquiries to lucie@stevealbum.com     Brian Henderson - Photography            Brian joined the company in July 2010. He is a fine art photographer and avid collector of obscure ephemera. He entered the art world via his interest in skateboarding, and has been involved in the skate scene for 25 years. Brian uses his expertise in photography to create our photo-lists as well as employing his artfully mastered people skills in handling the company’s customer relations. You may contact him at brian@stevealbum.com

Last Modified: October 5, 2010