Staff - Hallenbeck Coin Gallery

Tom Hallenbeck initially started working at Hallenbeck Coin Gallery in the fall of 1985 after graduating from the University of Colorado in Boulder with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the school of Economics, shortly after Ken Hallenbeck founded the company in 1983. Even before starting a career in numismatics, Tom had been an avid collector since he was first able to read and attended coin club meetings and coin shows with his father (Ken Hallenbeck) back in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

After joining Hallenbeck Coin Gallery, Tom focused on grading and authentication of US coins. Aided by having located our coin store just 2 blocks from the headquarters of the world’s largest coin club, the American Numismatic Association Tom took advantage of having the largest numismatic circulating library just a stones throw away. First taking a “US Coin Grading” class offer by the ANA in the summer of 1986, then followed by US coin authentication, Tom has now been an instructor of coin grading classes at the annual “ANA summer seminar” continuously for over 20 years. Tom is the recipient of numerous awards including the ANA’s “Medal of Merit”, “Presidential Award”, “Glen Smedley Award” and “Goodfellow Award”, additionally Tom was presented the “Numismatic Ambassador” award by Numismatic News.

Tom also followed Ken Hallenbeck’s footsteps, not only by following him in his coin business and purchasing the Hallenbeck Coin Gallery from his father in the summer of 2001, but by also being the only father and son to be elected to the ANA Board of Governors, Vice-President and then President. Ken was elected President of the American Numismatic Association in 1991 and Tom was elected to the Presidency of the ANA in 2011.

From just two full time numismatists in 1985 to having 14 employees in 2014, Tom is continuing to expand the Hallenbeck Coin Gallery footprint not only to include the Pikes Peak region and the front range of Colorado, but to include all of the USA. We’ve grown from a small family coin store to a multi-million dollar corporation. Hallenbeck Coin Gallery is a member of the BBB of Southern Colorado, the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce and numerous other associations and organizations.

Ken attended the University of Michigan and received an A.B. degree in 1955. He opened the Ken Hallenbeck Coin Gallery in Colorado Springs in 1983.

Ken was elected to the ANA board of governors in 1971. He resigned from the board in 1977 to fill a staff position as assistant to the executive director and curator of the ANA museum. Later he served as Vice President and was the 46th ANA President from 1989 to 1991. He returned to the ANA as acting executive director in August of 2007 for 7 months until a permanent executive director was hired.

Ken has received the ANA Goodfellow Award, Medal of Merit, Glen Smedley Memorial Award, Exemplary Service Award, Lifetime Achievement Award and the Farran Zerbe Award, the ANA’s highest honor. He is a Numismatic News Numismatic Ambassador.

Ken is an authority on counterstamped coins and he has contributed articles on counterstamped coins to The Numismatist, Coin World, Numismatic Scrapbook Magazine and others. He claims the world’s largest collection of credit cards and he also collects odd and curious money.