Bob Leonard alerted me to the passing of collector David Henkle. Sorry to hear this news. -Editor

I bought several coins from exotic countries in Southeast Asia, etc., from him in the 1980s. He lived in the Chicago area and was for a time Ben Odesser's assistant at the Chicago Coin Bourse. Dave was reticent and unassuming.

He became a specialist in Latin American tokens. He told me that he visited the Smithsonian Institution to look at their Latin American tokens, and discovered an unrecognized 1/2 real Texas Jola (1817 or 1818) among them!

He appears to have also been a member of the (now defunct) Morton Grove Coin Club and editor of their newsletter. On September 9, 1987, Dave spoke to the Chicago Coin Club on "information sources for the study of Latin American coins and tokens."

Dave's brother Douglas H. Henkle built a website of his research on Latin American tokens. This seems extremely comprehensive (and current). This is the life's work of a true expert, and though never properly published due to lack of funds. Typically Latin American token research is published by country (Mexico, Paraguay, Colombia, etc.), so is fragmented, but Dave was interested in all the plantation, etc. tokens and no doubt noticed commonalities among them.