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OLDEST ANS MEMBER PASSES AWAY: LéON LACROIX
The July/August 2016 issue of the American Numismatic Society Enews included this note about the passing of the society's oldest member.
-Editor
On August 1, 2016, Léon Lacroix passed away at the age of 106 years. Born on November 23, 1909, Lacroix was Professor of Archaeology and Art History at the University of Liège in Belgium. He was a well-known expert on the iconography of Greek coinage. He is perhaps remembered best for his book on statues on coins, Les Reproductions de Statues sur les Monnaies Grecques: La Statuaire Archaïque et Classique, which appeared in 1949 and is still frequently cited by scholars. Professor Lacroix was an emeritus member of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Léon Lacroix had been a Corresponding Member of the American Numismatic Society, which he joined over seventy years ago, having been elected as an Associate Member in 1946. 
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