Walter J. Husak

Walter J. Husak (born 27 May 1942^[1]) is the owner of an aerospace-part manufacturing company in Burbank, California. On February 15, 2008, Heritage Auctions sold his collection of 301 rare cents in Long Beach, California. Two of the cents went for $632,500 a piece. The entire collection sold for approximately $10.7 million.^[2]

Walter Husak began collecting coins in 1955 when he was spending a summer in Iowa at his grandparents’ farm. Mr. Husak purchased his first large cent in June, 1980 - an 1804 large cent. In 1986, he purchased his first Sheldon-13. At the end of 1994, he decided to try to collect all of the Sheldon varieties, and over the next decade built one of the most important Sheldon collections in the world.^[3]

References

1. HNAI the Walter J. Husak Collection Auction Catalog #460. Heritage Capital Corporation. 2008.
2. Rosenblatt, Susannah; Rubin, Joel (17 February 2008). "Collection of rare cents fetches $10.7 million". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
3. The Walter J. Husak Collection of Large Cents