Henry Augustus Greene (5 August 1861 – 9 July 1950) was a collector of ancient Greek coins and citizen of Providence, Rhode Island, US.
As the son of a middle class textile merchant Greene was able to receive a private education, attending the Mowry and Goff School.
[3] On 21 December 1907 Greene married Myra Irving Slack [4] with whom he lived until his death on 9 July 1950, aged 88 years and 11 months.
From 1907 until the end of his life he donated an eclectic set of objects to the Museum, ranging from his great aunt’s sampler from 1798 to a pair of Cheyenne Moccasins to archaeological material from the Ancient Near East.
The eclectic and sporadic nature of the donations indicates that the relationship to the museum, and public display of objects he acquired, was of greater importance to Greene than building a coherent collection of ancient Near Eastern material.
[citation needed] In contrast to the ancient Near Eastern and American objects that Greene donated to the RISD Museum, his collection of Greek coins was carefully built up over the years.