Walter Henry Breen Jr. (September 5, 1928 – April 27, 1993) was an American numismatist, writer, and convicted child sex offender. He was known among coin collectors for writing Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins .

Nov 3, 2015 · Twenty-two years ago, noted numismatist Walter H. Breen died at Chino’s California Institute for Men, part of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. A convicted serial...

Oct 3, 1991 · Walter Breen, a nationally heralded rare coin expert whose eccentric personality has made him the “guru of numismatics,” has been arrested and charged with eight counts of felony child...

Aside from writing nearly three dozen monographs and volumes on almost every aspect of American numismatics, Walter Breen authored, under various names, manuscripts on such diverse subjects as sexology, economics, psychopharmacology, astrology, …

Walter Henry Breen Jr. (September 5, 1928 – April 27, 1993) was an American numismatist, writer, and convicted child sex offender as well as the husband of author Marion Zimmer Bradley, who was aware of his child molestation activities.

Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U. S. and Colonial Coins in 1988 @ $75.00. In 1977 F.C.I. Press released a "Talking Book Record" The Care and Preservation of Rare Coins by Walter Breen. In 1954 he was charged with lewd behavior in Atlantic City and received probation.

His biography includes his convictions for child molestation, his marriage to lesbian fiction writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, his widely read and accepted numismatic books on the United States Half Cent, and his Encyclopedia of United States Coins, published in 1988.

Jul 27, 2021 · Biographical notes on Walter Breen, prepared c. 1990 by Bruce Vogel. Includes chronological resume of publications in addition to personal observations.

Apr 27, 1993 · Walter H. Breen, Jr. was an American numismatist, writer and convicted child sex offender, and the husband of author Marion Zimmer Bradley. He is known among coin collectors for writing Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins .

Walter Henry Breen, American numismatic writer. Recipient Silver Medal of Honor Roosevelt University, 1966, Order of the Laurel Society for Creative Anachronism, 1969, Silver Medal of Merit Society for International Numis, 1991.