While still in high school, Steve Roach receives the Senior Best of Show award from Fran Lockwood at the 1997 Central States Numismatic Society coin show.
Steve Roach has built his career on following his interests, developing a deep and rich blend of experiences that are unmatched by his peers in the industry.
His love of rare coins started while he was in elementary school with a cigar box of coins given to him by his grandmother. In high school Steve would travel on weekends to coin shows across the nation, working under some of the top minds in the coin business and learning the industry, while reading everything he could on art and the art market. When he was 16 he received the first college major scholarship provided by a coin company and the next year the American Numismatic Association named Steve its Young Numismatist of the Year.
He continued working with coins to pay for his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, spending the summers working with Professional Coin Grading Service, Heritage Rare Coin Galleries, Christie’s/Spink America, and studying abroad in Florence, Italy.
Upon graduation with a dual degree in art history (high honors) and organizational studies, Steve moved to Dallas and worked as a rare coin grader and trader at Heritage. After a year, he moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he started law school at The Ohio State University, while grading coins at ANACS to fund his education. In his career, Steve has either graded, priced or sold more than 50,000 rare coins valued at more than $100,000,000.
After receiving his Juris Doctor and his Texas law license, Steve returned to Dallas where he was the inaugural director of the trusts and estates department at Heritage, which was making a major push into the fine art fields. After 18 months, he was asked to join Christie’s 19th century European paintings department on a temporary assignment, and Steve jumped at the chance to move to New York.
Upon the conclusion of that project, Steve joined Coin World, the world’s largest hobby publication, in Ohio, where he recruited a team to revive Coin World’s coin values (Trends) and writes the hobby’s most widely-read analysis of the rare coin market, while writing on legal, legislative and investment aspects of the hobby. He has since published more than 400 articles on coins and the coin market.
Steve is currently an Accredited Member of the International Society of Appraisers and sits on its Board of Directors. He is one of the youngest people ever to serve on the Board of one of the “big three” appraisal organizations. He is the former chair of the Arts, Entertainment and Sports Law division of the American Bar Association, Young Lawyer’s Division and was a member of the Dallas Bar Association’s 2007 Leadership Class.
Steve is a rare coin and fine art expert appraiser and consultant who writes the widest-read weekly report on the rare coin market for Coin World, the world's largest hobby publication. He has worked with ANACS (Columbus, OH), Christie's (New York, NY), Heritage Rare Coin Galleries and Heritage Auctions (Dallas, TX). Steve is an accredited member of the International Society of Appraisers.