Non-professional vitae

English Language and Literature

Montclair State University, BA with a double major in English and Philosophy.

New York University, MA in English Language and Literature.

Donald Scarinci has written articles on a broad range of topics from law to history to numismatics to editorials.  Some of that content is being brought together on this web site. Donald continues to enjoy fiction and non-fiction, especially history.

 

Photography

As a student at Union Hill High School, Union City, NJ, Donald’s first job was as an assistant multi-media coordinator for the City of Union City. The part-time job was funded through a federal, Johnson-era program. Donald wrote press releases took pictures of city events and produced multimedia presentations to promote city programs.

 

That experience caught the attention of Harold Bardes, a professional photographer with a studio in Union City. Bardes was quite successful at the time as a commercial photographer, and had previously served as the second president of the Professional Photographer’s Association (http://ppanj.com/index.php).

 

In the late 1970’s while Donald was in college and in graduate school his photography experience extended to wedding’s and photojournalism.  He was a campaign photographer for former United States Senator Bill Bradley during his first campaign for the United States Senate in 1978.

 

Today, Donald enjoys fine art photography, street photography and urban landscapes in particular.  Some of his work can be viewed on his Fine Art Photography blog, (www.DonaldScarinciPictures.com) and on Flicker (Scarinci/DonaldScarinci@Yahoo.com)

Numismatics

Donald has studied rare coins and medallic art for over 35 years. When he was in high school, his interests were more inclined in ancient Roman coins but ultimately his interest from Julius Caesar to Gordian III. Sometimes after 1983, he focused his attention on medieval English pennies and American colonial coins. Numismatics is a field that ranges in scope from history to design. In 1985 and the first coins authored by Wayte Raymond, one of the United States leading collectors, which led him to shift from history to design. He began to focus on United States commemorative coins, world class art of medalists.

 

Educational institutions that have asked Donald to lecture on medallic art and hand-held sculpture include the Gibbes Museum of Art in South Carolina, Forest Lawn Museum in California and the Newark Museum in New Jersey. The Delaware Art Museum sponsored several forums at which Donald was a featured speaker in 2009 at the Samuel Dorsky symposium honoring the past president of The Juilliard school. The National Sculpture Society at venues around the country. He has often lectured at the request of collector organizations, including the American Numismatic Association (ANA) national shows and summer seminars, the Colonial Coin Collectors Club, the Token and Medal Society, the American Numismatic Society (ANS), and once yearly at the New York Numismatic Club.

 

Since 1996, Donald has been a board or panel of experts to award the J. Sanford Saltus Award, the most prestigious award in the world for medallic art. He has been a member of the ANA national board of governors since 1980. He has served on the Krause Publications’ Coin of the Year panel, which reviews international coin designs in various categories.

 

In 2005, Donald was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury to serve on the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee. Since that time, he has been qualified by the courts of the State of California to provide expert testimony about coins, and he has been called upon by the court in the State of New Jersey to advise and evaluate the numismatic holdings and value of estates.

Numismatic Affiliations

  • Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee of the United States Mint (CCAC), appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States
  • American Numismatic Association (ANA) (LM – 5895) (Fellow, 1988 – Present)
  • American Numismatic Society (ANS) (Fellow, 1998 – Present), Saltus Award Committee (Member, 2004 – Present)
  • Colonial Coin Collector’s Club (C-4) (Founding Member, 1992 – Present)
  • Medal Collectors of America (Trustee, 2003 – Present)
  • Ripley Art Medal Society (RAMS) (Member, 2000 – Present)
  • National Sculpture Society (Member, 2000 – Present)
  • Danish Art Medal Society (Member, 2003 – Present)
  • New York Numismatic Club (Member, 2003 – Present)
  • Promotion de la Medaille (member since 2006)
  • The Numismatic Bibliomania Society (member since 2008)
  • Tokens and Medals Society (TAMS) (member since 2008)