Dennis Tucker

Dennis Tucker is an award-winning numismatic researcher who has written and lectured nationwide on coins, medals, and other antiques and collectibles. A collector since the age of seven, he is a Life Member of the American Numismatic Association and the Numismatic Literary Guild, a past governor of the Token and Medal Society, a Numismatic Ambassador, active member of the Philippine Collectors Forum and other hobby groups, and secretary pro tem of the Rittenhouse Society.

Dennis is the author of “American Gold and Silver: U.S. Mint Collector and Investor Coins and Medals, Bicentennial to Date” (2016) the standard reference on American Arts gold medallions, American Buffalo and First Spouse gold coins, and related U.S. bullion coins and medals.

His writing has appeared in national publications such as “The Numismatist,” “Coin World,” “Numismatic News,” “COINage,” “Coins Magazine,” and “Coin Update,” and in the journals of such groups as the Barber Coin Collectors Society and the Numismatic Bibliomania Society.

He writes two columns, “Notes Published” (biweekly, on numismatic books, writing, research, and publishing) and “From the Colonel’s Desk” (a weekly exploration of the rich history of Kentucky embodied in coins, medals, paper money, private currency, and related material culture).

As publisher at Whitman Publishing (since 2004) he specializes in books on numismatics, banking and financial history, the American presidency, U.S. political and military history, and other nonfiction topics.

Dennis grew up in Phoenix, New York, earned a degree in political science from the University of Rochester, and moved south in 2002. He lives with his family in Atlanta. In 2015 he was commended by Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia for his career in book publishing and his promotion of the state’s numismatic history. In 2021 he was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel, the highest honor awarded by the Commonwealth, by Governor Andy Beshear.