Robert Socrates Bashlow
Biography
Dealer in New York. Proprietor of the White Oak Trading Co., Williams Trading Company, Trans-African Development Company and QWERTYUIO Press. Unmarried.
He produced copies of the Continental Currency about 1962 and cast copies of a Nova Constellation Quint. He produced the "Bashlow restrikes" of Confederate cents. More than 30,000 pieces were struck in various metals in 1961.
In 1962 he was expelled from the ANA. He died in a mysterious hotel fire in Zaragosa, Spain. The death toll was estimated at eighty victims. It remains undetermined if the cause was accidental or terrorism.
Obit NN 7/28/1979
Source credit: Pete Smith, American Numismatic Biographies
Bio Snapshot
Date of Birth: 1939 - Jun - 21Date of Death: 1979 - Jul - 12