Randy Campbell
Senior Grader

Randy has been deeply involved in numismatics for over 35 years. In the 1970’s he helped to build top quality investment portfolios for professional groups in south Florida.

In 1977 Randy was elected president of the West Palm Coin Club. In 1979 Randy was elected to the board of Florida United Numismatists. Then, in 1989, Randy was elected president of F.U.N. Currently, he serves as F.U.N. educational chairman, a position he has held for 30 years.

A prolific writer, Randy has had over 200 articles published in Coin World, Numismatic News, F.U.N – Topics and The NSDR Journal. Since 1993 he has written a monthly column for Coin World titled “Grading Insights”.

Randy has been presented with several awards during his numismatic career. They include Three A.N.A. presidential awards; FUN’s excellence in numismatic education award; and the National Silver Dollar Roundtables Lifetime Achievement Award.

Since 1989, Randy has been employed as a full time professional grader. He estimates he has professionally graded close to 2 million coins!

F. Michael "Skip" Fazzari
Numismatist

Fazzari is an internationally recognized professional numismatist who has been involved with coins in one way or another for most of his life. As a collector, Skip became a professional in 1972 when he joined the American Numismatic Association Certification Service where he became the Chief Authenticator and taught at the ANA Summer Seminar. For over thirty-five years he has provided expert services in authentication, grading and conservation of both U.S. and foreign coins. He has been the principal numismatist, researcher, and variety specialist at three of the four third party grading services where he has worked including ANACS, the International Numismatic Society Authentication Bureau (INSAB), PCI, the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation of America (NGC), and most recently, the Numismatic Conservation Service (NCS).

Since 1972, Fazzari was closely involved in the development of coin authentication and grading. While at ANACS, he developed the “Die Scratch Method” of coin authentication which continues to be used today. He also devised the internal grading standards (Technical Grading) used at ANACS when it was located in Washington, DC and also those used at the INS Authentication Bureau which was the first third-party grading service predating ANACS by six months. As an instructor of the advanced grading and authentication classes for the Institute of Numismatic and Philatelic Studies at Adelphi University in New York, he was elected to the Board of Overseers and given the honor of Distinguished Lecturer in Numismatics. He has been asked to testify as expert witness by the State of New York and the United States Federal Trade Commission. While in Washington, Fazzari routinely handled numismatic inquiries from the Secret Service, FBI, and the White House.

Skip writes monthly columns on grading and authentication for Numismatic News and “The Collector’s Edge” column in the Numismatist Magazine