Georgia Teenager Wins 2008 Png YN Scholarship

Georgia Teenager Wins 2008 PNG YN Scholarship

(Fallbrook, California) - An Atlanta area high school freshman, Dustin Reynolds, 15, is this year's winner of the Professional Numismatist Guild's (PNG) Young Numismatist Scholarship. The PNG scholarship covers tuition for a one-week session at the American Numismatic Association ( ANA) annual Summer Seminar, airfare, meals and six nights of dormitory accommodations on the campus of Colorado College, site of the ANA headquarters.

"I was pretty excited," said Reynolds, recalling his reaction when he was informed of the scholarship.

Dustin began collecting coins at the age of 13. At that time he was intrigued by Morgan dollars.



He had a bourse table at a recent Georgia Numismatic Association show in Dalton.

"I'm balancing between being a collector and a dealer. I want to be a professional numismatist (for my career)."

Reynolds enjoys collecting varieties of early date large cents, such as the 1806/7 overdate, and says his favorite area of numismatics is "everything Seated." He would like to enroll in the Counterfeit Detection class at this year's ANA Summer Seminar.

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