Erik Goldstein is Curator of Mechanical Arts amp Numismatics at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation After receiving a BA in Fine ArtsIllustration from Parsons School of Design he joined Harmer Rooke Numismatists also in New York City before spending the next 12 years as a professional numismatist and consultant He has lectured on topics of military history and instructs a threeyear syllabus on the coins medals and paper money of Colonial America as part of the American Numismatics Associations Summer Seminar held every July Dr Goldstein spoke at a Ford Evening Book Talk at the Washington Library on March 10 2016