Big, Bold, and Beautiful - Coins That Have Stood Out Through The Ages 
May 28, 2026, 12 pm MT

This presentation will discuss England's 1839 Una and the Lion coins honoring Queen Victoria, and how engraver William Wyon's "unimprovable" coin design helped to usher in Queen Victoria's and England's 19th-century greatness.

Robert "Bob" Bair has been involved in numismatics since 1956, first as a collector, then as a coin dealer starting in 1987. As a boy growing up in northwestern Wisconsin in the 1950s he began collecting coins that he received from his newspaper route, and a lifelong passion was born. Bair holds masters degrees in U.S. history (1970) and educational administration (1994).