Greg Rohan

Greg Rohan is the president of Dallas, Texas-based auction house Heritage Auction Galleries. In April 2006, Rohan's firm brokered the sale of an 1804 silver dollar for $2.5 million. [Associated Press, "Rare 1804 Silver Dollar Sold for Nearly $2.5 Million," April 4, 2006, LexisNexis.] In December 2006, Rohan handled the sale of a rare "Grand Watermelon" $1,000 dollar bill, which also went for more than two million dollars. [Associated Press, "Collector Pays $2.3M for $1,000 Bill," December 16, 2006, LexisNexis.] In December 2007, a misprinted postage stamp, showing an upside-down Curtiss JN-4 biplane, sold for $825,000, in a transaction overseen by Rohan and his firm. [Paul Weber, "Auction house says Wall Street executive purchased rare 'Inverted Jenny' stamp for $825,000," Associated Press, December 27, 2007.]

Rohan is co-author, with James L. Halperin, of "The Collectors Estate Handbook." The book won the Robert Friedberg Award of the Professional Numismatists Guild in 2001.

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