Greg Rohan

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Greg Rohan is the president of Dallas, Texas-based auction house Heritage Auction Galleries. In April 2006, Rohan's firm brokered the sale of an 1804 silver dollar for $2.5 million.[1] In December 2006, Rohan handled the sale of a rare "Grand Watermelon" $1,000 dollar bill, which also went for more than two million dollars.[2] In December 2007, a misprinted postage stamp, showing an upside-down Curtiss JN-4 biplane, sold for $825,000, in a transaction overseen by Rohan and his firm.[3]

Rohan is co-author, with James L. Halperin, of The Collectors Estate Handbook. The book won the Robert Friedberg Award of the Professional Numismatists Guild in 2001.

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  1. ^ Associated Press, "Rare 1804 Silver Dollar Sold for Nearly $2.5 Million," April 4, 2006, LexisNexis.
  2. ^ Associated Press, "Collector Pays $2.3M for $1,000 Bill," December 16, 2006, LexisNexis.
  3. ^ Paul Weber, "Auction house says Wall Street executive purchased rare 'Inverted Jenny' stamp for $825,000," Associated Press, December 27, 2007.