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Q. David Bowers
Quentin David Bowers (born October 21, 1938) is among the best-known and most noteworthy numismatic authors of the last 50 years. Beginning in 1953, Bowers’s contributions to numismatics have continued uninterrupted and unabated to the present day.〔(Stack's: Rare Coins For Sale: Numismatic Auctions )〕 He has been involved in the selling of rare coins since 1953 when he was a teenager.〔(How Q. David Bowers Began Collecting Coins )〕 A 1960 graduate of the Pennsylvania State University, Q. David Bowers was given the Alumni Achievement Award by that institution's College of Business Administration in a ceremony in 1976.〔(Bowers, Q. David )〕
==Early life==
Bowers was born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania in 1938.〔()〕 His maternal grandfather, Chester L. Garratt, an attorney by profession, was a hobbyist and researcher in many areas. Garratt gave him his first "rare" coin, a well worn 1893 Columbian half dollar.〔 This would be his first exposure to numismatics.
In 1945–46, his next exposure to numismatics was a friend’s home in which a dozen or more Indian pennies were embedded face-up in a concrete walk near the front door.〔 In 1948, his family moved to Forty Fort, Pennsylvania (about an hour away from Honesdale).〔
As a 13-year-old high school student, Bowers's interests included reptiles, scouting, short-wave radio, Strombecker kit models of World War II airplanes, and rocks and minerals. During this time Bowers became interested in the written word. He received Raymond L. Ditmars' ''Reptiles of North America'' from his mother as a Christmas gift in 1952. According to Bowers, Ditmars, who was curator of reptiles at the New York Zoological Garden (Bronx Zoo), had a way of making just about anything sound fascinating.〔 From such experiences, Bowers learned the power of the written word and how it can spur one to a great enthusiasm for acquisition.〔
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