Gary Burke was a founding member of the Knights of the Coin Table, another online coin collecting club, (he was known as CoinCrusader) and he was very involved with the production and distribution of the annual club medals being offered by the KotCT since 2007. Gary's fellow Coloradoan, Daniel Carr, is the medal designer, and he would ship Gary all the medals, and Gary would ship them out individually to all the members of the KotCT worldwide, including a bulk shipment to Australia for further distribution locally there. Gary's favorite style KotCT medal was the 63mm pewter, which the KotCT has kept up, along with the 39mm medals, mostly at Gary's urging. At this time, the KotCT is working with Daniel Carr to create a special commemorative 63mm pewter medal as a tribute to Gary. The KotCT wishes to make this medal available, inexpensively, to any people who have enjoyed numismatics along with Gary. One image being discussed as a component of the medal is a turtle, since that is the animal he depicted as carrying the medals across the oceans to deliver to the members, slow but sure. A proposed motto is: "Shipping Friendship Around the World". And not only did Gary himself participate in numismatics, but numerous members of his family joined right along with him.
Gary Burke December 27, 1942 - March 18, 2010
