Long-time Councilor and collector of Colonial relics, Pell's greatest contribution to the ANS occurred when he volunteered to serve as ANS President after Edward Newell's untimely death.
Wayte Raymond (1886–1956) was a numismatist from the United States. He authored several numismatic books and catalogs and his Standard Catalog was considered the premier coin guide of its time. He was inducted into the Numismatic Hall of Fame in 1969.
Alfred Zantzinger Reed (1875-1949) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, published articles on U.S. medals, tokens, and store cards, and books on legal education.
John Reilly, Jr. (1876-1931) began his career as an engineer, but his love of coin collecting became his primary interest, and he would eventually amass the largest collection of Far Eastern coins in the world.
Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson (1887-1976) was a numismatist, specializing in Greek and Roman coins, and Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum.
Computer analyst and numismatic researcher P. Scott Rubin was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He maintains a large library that includes thousands of auction catalogs and is an active member of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society.
Richard Schaefer (1946-) is an American numismatist specializing in Roman Republican ancient coinage.
He inaugurated the first corpus of all struck Republican coinage arranged by die, which has been digitized by the American Numismatic Society and will transform Coinage of the Roman Republic Online into a database of die images.
Coin dealer Hans Schulman (1913-1990) of New York City was born in the Netherlands to a family of numismatists. He studied at the Sorbonne in Paris before coming to the United States. In 1946 he published The Coin Collectors Almanac and he coauthored The Investors Guide to United States Coins in 1986.
Willy Schwabacher was a German numismatist who hailed from a line of numismatists. His father, Heinrich Wilhelm Schwabacher (1852–1908), and grandfather, Adoph E. Cahn, were coin dealers, and his cousins, Herbert A. Cahn and Erich B. Cahn, were also scholars of numismatics. He worked in the coin cabinet of the National Museum of Denmark from 1939 to 1943, when he fled the Gestapo to Sweden, where he spent much of the rest of his life.
Henri Arnold Seyrig (10 November 1895 – 21 January 1973) was a French archaeologist, numismatist, and historian of antiquities. He was general director of antiquities of Syria and Lebanon since 1929 and director during more than twenty years of the Institute of archaeology of Beirut.