Meet Our Team Of Skilled Numismatists
Brylei Atha
-Head numismatist & Buyer
Nate Leonauskas
World Coin Specialist | Business Operations
Brylei is a 14-year-old North Carolina-based numismatist with over a decade of experience in the hobby and attended WCU 2026.
He started collecting at the age of four, when his grandmother would put Buffalo nickels in his Easter eggs. His journey into dealing began not long after, at his first coin show in Marietta, Georgia, at the age of seven. He started flipping coins at that show and was hooked.
Fast-forward to today, and Brylei is an avid collector of almost any 20th-century type coin, as well as certain toned coins. He is absolutely loving life as a coin dealer while still in high school.
Hayden is a 17 YO college freshman attended Witter Coin U 2022,2024,2025,2026 as well as ANA Summer Seminar 2024, 2025, 2026 He started collecting 13 years ago when his grandfather would give him wheat cents and coin world magazines whenever he would go to his house, what really secured it was when his grandfather gave him a large cent when he was about 5. He specializes in 1800s type with his collections focusing on three cent silvers and three cent nickels.
UC Berkeley student and two time Witter Coin U alumni Nathaniel Bayer Hafran is a California-based numismatist who has been collecting coins since the age of 11. Nathaniel has written for a variety of numismatic publications, including the ANA, CSNA, CCCC, and several others. Nathaniel has won several awards for his writing, including the 1st place Nona G. Moore award for young numismatists and the 2nd place Roy Hill Literary award from the California State Numismatic Association. After years of collecting and writing, Nathaniel began seriously dealing in coins in the fall of 2025, doing so part time in his senior year of high school. Since then, he has passed over $100,000 in sales and is a regular at California coin shows.
Nathaniel specializes in early American type and odd denominations, particularly early copper and seated liberty coinage.
Nate is an 18-year-old Chicago-based numismatist who has collected since 2013. He served as the first editor-in-chief of The Young Numismatist, building the publication from scratch and raising more than $7,000. Nate is a Witter Coin University alum (‘25 & ‘26), a twice-elected Board member of the Young Numismatists of America, and currently a Reading Room youth co-columnist. He won the first-place Kenneth E. Bressett (2026) and third-place Q. David Bowers (2025) Literary Awards as well as the 2024 NGC Numismatic Triathlon (YN category).
Nate specializes in world coinage, particularly crown-sized coins, from the 1500s onward (e.g., talers, 8 reales, écus). He has also dealt in early United States silver since 2023.
Nathaniel Bayer-Hafran
-Head of Streaming Operations
Hayden Landry
-Head of Finance