CoinAiLyzer
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CoinAiLyzer
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AI-Powered Coin Grading
Meet the Team
Daniel Malone
Co-Founder, Co-Owner & Lead Numismatic Advisor
Daniel Malone is the co-founder, co-owner, and Lead Numismatic Advisor of CoinAiLyzer, which develops AI-powered, photo-based coin analysis tools that provide educational grading and value context for collectors. CoinAiLyzer does not authenticate coins, certify grades, or provide formal appraisals.
With more than 40 years of experience in numismatics, Daniel leads the company's numismatic training and grading initiatives, helping develop and refine CoinAiLyzer's AI models using professional grading standards, market knowledge, and real-world dealer expertise. His work bridges traditional numismatics with modern artificial intelligence, ensuring the technology is built upon practical knowledge and continuous refinement.
Daniel is also the owner of Portsmouth Coin & Currency Co. in Portsmouth, Ohio, where he specializes in buying, selling, grading, and authenticating rare coins and precious metals. He is a member of the American Numismatic Association (ANA), the Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG), CONECA, and maintains memberships with leading third-party grading organizations, including PCGS, NGC, and CACG.
Beyond the coin shop, Daniel is the creator of the CoinHELPu educational platform, which includes a website, help community, social media communities, and one of the largest educational YouTube channels dedicated to coin collecting. Through these resources, he has helped educate hundreds of thousands of collectors on coin grading, counterfeit detection, market trends, and numismatic best practices.
Daniel's vision for CoinAiLyzer is to combine decades of professional numismatic knowledge with artificial intelligence to create powerful tools that educate collectors, assist dealers, and help shape the future of coin grading.
Jim Lowry
Coin Dealer & Shop Owner
Jim Lowry started a little local coin shop about 15 years ago in Nevada, MO, and currently keeps regular store hours there. As a child, he helped his father fill in blue Whitman coin folders from pocket change. He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono with a degree in entomology (the study of insects). After graduating college, the subsequent years were spent in the building industry. Around 2000 Jim began buying and selling coins on eBay, which led to him opening up a shop to try to thin out his collection.
Jim attributes a great deal of his success to Scott Shultz, who now works with Kearney Coin Center in Kearney, Nebraska — he was instrumental in Jim's coin education. A high point in his numismatic career was the recent discovery of the finest known PCGS-graded 1908 proof quarter at PF69. It has been an honor getting to know Daniel Malone of CoinHELPu through the CoinAiLyzer project.
For fun, aside from looking at coins, spending time with family is always nice — both of his children are part of the CoinAiLyzer team, which allows him more interaction with them. He also enjoys fishing and guitar playing.
James Lowry
Customer Service & Team Support
James B. Lowry is responsible for customer service at CoinAiLyzer as well as support to the team when he can. He has always had a passion to both improve himself and to help others improve themselves around him, so support was a natural choice.
James was born with a computer in his hand, and so he's always been familiar with technology. He has historically run diverse projects such as trying to create his own phone, transferring video game assets to other games, learning how to run local LLM/AI models on his personal hardware, and making his own music/videos/games/programs.
Josh Lowry
Head of Product
Josh Lowry is Head of Product for CoinAiLyzer. He's spent his career at S&P 500 companies building tools for people to do work better, smarter, faster… and maybe have fun along the way. But this project started somewhere much smaller: his father's retirement business is coins, and when he asked if they could pull together a team to build something fun for collectors, Josh wanted to join.
His role here is the product itself — the app's look and feel, the UX/UI, the website, and shaping what CoinAiLyzer actually offers collectors day to day. The underlying AI, a model trained on 1M+ coin images from CoinHELPu mapping a grade-relevant heatmap across a coin's surface, is built and maintained by the technical team — Troy. Josh's job is making sure what that technology produces is something a collector can actually use, trust, and want to open again.
Josh isn't a numismatist, but he does have fun building tools, solving hard challenges, and challenging the status quo. Hearing Daniel talk about what he's tried to do over the years, and the scientific approach to learning and understanding coins, sounded like a great project.
If you use CoinAiLyzer, Josh is the one thinking about how it should feel, what it should tell you, and when — and he's reading all the comments in and out of the app. You shape the next version, and you're a part of shaping the future. Thank you for your trust.
Troy Lowry
Co-Founder, President & Chief Technology Officer
Troy Lowry is the co-founder, president, and Chief Technology Officer of CoinAiLyzer, which develops AI-powered, photo-based coin analysis tools that provide educational grading and value context for collectors. CoinAiLyzer does not authenticate coins, certify grades, or provide formal appraisals.
With more than 30 years in software and two decades as a senior technology executive, Troy leads the company's engineering, machine learning, and product development. He built CoinAiLyzer's image analysis pipeline, grading models, and pricing engine himself, translating Daniel Malone's professional grading standards into systems a collector can run from a phone in their kitchen. His focus is on models that admit what they don't know, because a confident wrong grade costs a collector real money.
Prior to founding CoinAiLyzer, Troy served as Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at the Law School Admission Council, where he ran technology and security for a national testing organization serving hundreds of thousands of candidates a year. Earlier in his career he co-founded a software company building custom systems for banks and credit unions. He holds a BA from Northeastern University and an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business, has filed a patent, and served on Microsoft's Higher Education Customer Advisory Board.
Troy does calculus on paper just for fun and has pursued machine learning certifications and coursework for years, none of it required by an employer. He does it because he loves the work, and he still checks overnight model results before he checks the news.
CoinAiLyzer is built without venture capital, a product committee, or a marketing department. Troy writes the code, works on videos and posts, reads as many of the comments as he can find, and publishes what goes wrong along with what goes right at lowryonleadership.com, where he writes about AI, leadership, and life. He also maintains a YouTube channel on the lessons that matter more than any of this. Outside of work he runs ultramarathons, most recently 65 miles in 24 hours — roughly the pain tolerance required to teach a phone camera to see coin wear.
Troy's vision for CoinAiLyzer is to put professional-grade numismatic judgment in the hands of every collector, built by people who answer their own email and stake their own names on the results.