Begun by two brothers, Joseph and Morton in 1932, Stack's Bowers Galleries has been a leader in the cataloguing and selling of collectible coins for the past eighty years. The company has been in its current location since 1953. I can recall many a time as a child stopping by here with my dad, who was friends with the next generation of brothers. Needless to say, revisiting Stack's Bowers evoked numerous memories as I spent a fascinating time with Vicken Yegparian, the company's Vice President. I smiled to myself as he recalled how he started collecting coins at the age of six, as I, too, had done the same having been inspired by Ben, Harvey and Norman Stack. While my interest did not endure, Vicken's passion led him to pursue a career in numismatics and he has been working at Stack's Bowers since 2000. While sitting and chatting, I inquired as to what was the motivation behind Stacks merging with Bowers in 2011. Vicken explained that the Stack family wanted to "expand their market while also extending their reach - pairing the two great brands in America into one made perfect sense." Vicken went on to tell me about the record-breaking auction of a 1794 Silver Dollar coin for $10 million and - more generally - about the history of coin collecting in the United States. The store is filled with auction catalogs dating back to 1935, and wood cabinets where coins were historically stored. Outside, I inspected the gold ATM that allows one to purchase solid gold bars, one of only twenty in the world.