THE HEATH LITERARY AWARD

The Heath Literary Award, introduced in 1949, acknowledges outstanding articles published in the preceding 12 months.

• First place – David Schenkman, “Whitehead & Hoag: Advertising Innovators” (April 2021), ($250, engraved nickel-silver medal, certificate)
• Second place – David Schenkman, “Company Stores & Scrip in America, Parts 1 & 2” (August-September 2021), ($100, engraved bronze medal, certificate)
• Third place – John Nebel, “Andragoras: Parthian Governor or Noble Cypriot?” (March 2021), (engraved bronze medal, certificate)

THE WAYTE AND OLGA RAYMOND ­MEMORIAL LITERARY AWARD

The Wayte and Olga Raymond Memorial Literary Award, endowed in 1978 by the late John J. Ford Jr., is presented for articles that display original and comprehensive research in U.S. numismatics.

• First place – David McCarthy, “An Act of Independence” (July 2021), ($400, certificate)
• Second place – William D. Hyder & Jeff Shevlin, “The Other Continental Dollar: Montroville Dickeson’s Commemoratives” (October 2021), ($200, certificate)
• Third place – William Eckberg, “Gobrecht, Peale, Saxton & the Cents of 1835-57” (May 2021), (certificate)

THE CATHERINE SHEEHAN LITERARY AWARD FOR U.S. PAPER MONEY STUDIES

Founded by an anonymous donor, the Catherine Sheehan Literary Award for U.S. Paper Money Studies includes $50 and a certificate for first place.

• First place – David Schenkman, “Company Stores & Scrip in America, Parts 1 & 2” (August-September 2021), ($50, certificate)
• Second place – Bill Gunther, Ph.D., “It’s Not the Destination, It’s the Journey” (February 2021), (certificate)
• Third place – Benjamin Dieter R. Hellings, “Yale Art Gallery’s Educational Series Proofs & Progressives” (February 2021), (certificate)

PRUE AND ARTHUR FITTS LITERARY AWARD FOR ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL MONEY STUDIES

The Prue and Arthur Fitts Literary Award for Ancient and Medieval Coinage Studies recognizes literary excellence in those fields.

• First place – Francis Jarman, “The Apostles on the Road” (May 2021), ($250, plaque, certificate)
• Second place – Mike Gasvoda, “Alexander the Great” (December 2021), (certificate)
• Third place – Allen G. Berman, “The Spanish Marches” (March 2021), (certificate)

THE HEATH LITERARY AWARD

• First place – David W. Lange, “Birth of the Blue Folder” (December 2020), ($250, engraved nickel-silver medal, certificate)
• Second place – David Schenkman, “America’s First Superstar: The Musical Genius of Patrick Gilmore & His Peace Jubilees” (May 2020), ($100, engraved bronze medal, certificate)
• Third place – Eric Brothers, “More than Pocket Change: Adolph A. Weinman’s Medallic Works” (June 2020), (engraved bronze medal, certificate)

THE WAYTE AND OLGA RAYMOND ­MEMORIAL LITERARY AWARD

• First place – William Eckberg, “The Earliest Hubs of the U.S. Mint” (August 2020), ($400, certificate)
• Second place – Mitchel Olszak, “Laura Gardin Fraser’s Washington & the Gold $5” (January 2020), ($200, certificate)
• Third place – Matthew Campbell, “Ivah Coles’ Carnegie Hero Medal” (March 2020), (certificate)

THE CATHERINE SHEEHAN LITERARY AWARD FOR U.S. PAPER MONEY STUDIES

• First place – David Schenkman, “From Doty & Bergen to Doty & McFarlan” (February 2020), ($50, certificate)
• Second place – Gerome Walton, “The Women Behind Nebraska Bank Notes” (August 2020), (certificate)
• Third place – Michael E. Marotta, “Pay Warrants of the Texas Navy” (November 2020), (certificate)

PRUE AND ARTHUR FITTS LITERARY AWARD FOR ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL MONEY STUDIES

• First place – Michael T. Shutterly, “Leaves of Silver: The Art & Artistry of Bracteates” (April 2020), ($250, plaque, certificate)
• Second place – Antonino Crisà, Ph.D., “Ancient Tokens of Sicily” (February 2020), (certificate)
• Third place – Steve M. Benner, “The Year of Six Emperors, Parts 1 & 2” (March-April 2020), (certificate)

THE HEATH LITERARY AWARD

• First place – Tom DeLorey and Dan Owens, “Not a Ghost of a Chance: Revisiting the Mystery of the 1873-S Seated Liberty Dollars” (July 2019), ($250, engraved nickel-silver medal)
• Second place – Nick Bruyer, “Brunaugh’s Treasury Notes” (November 2019), ($100 and an engraved bronze medal)
• Third place – David Schenkman, “Turnpikes & Toll Roads: Tokens, Tickets & Scrip of America’s Early Highways” (June 2019), (engraved bronze medal)

THE WAYTE AND OLGA RAYMOND ­MEMORIAL LITERARY AWARD

• First place – Tom DeLorey and Dan Owens, “Not a Ghost of a Chance: Revisiting the Mystery of the 1873-S Seated Liberty Dollars” (July 2019), ($400, certificates)
• Second place – David McCarthy, “The First Fugio Cent?” (June 2019), ($200, certificate)
• Third place – David McCarthy, “1942 High-Relief Cent Pattern” (January 2019), (certificate)

THE CATHERINE SHEEHAN LITERARY AWARD FOR U.S. PAPER MONEY STUDIES

• First place – Heinz Tschachler, “The Wildman in the New World” (September 2019), ($50, certificate)
• Second place – Nick Bruyer, “Brunaugh’s Treasury Notes” (November 2019), (certificate)
• Third place – David Schenkman, “The Scrip of DuBois, Pennsylvania” (February 2019), (certificate)

PRUE AND ARTHUR FITTS LITERARY AWARD FOR ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL MONEY STUDIES

THE HEATH LITERARY AWARD

 

 

• First place – Erik Goldstein & David McCarthy, “The Myth of the Continental Dollar, Parts 1 & 2” (January and July 2018), ($250, engraved nickel-silver medal)
• Second place – John Frost, “Reimagining the Barbers” (August 2018), ($100 and an engraved bronze medal)
• Third place – David Schenkman, “James Murdock Jr.: Ohio Die-Sinker” (May 2018), (engraved bronze medal)

 

THE WAYTE AND OLGA RAYMOND ­MEMORIAL LITERARY AWARD

 

 

 

 

• First place – Erik Goldstein & David McCarthy, “The Myth of the Continental Dollar, Parts 1 & 2” (January and July 2018), ($400, certificates)
• Second place – John Frost, “Reimagining the Barbers” (August 2018), ($200, certificate)
• Third place – Jim Neiswinter, “Smith of Ann Street” (April 2018), (certificate)

 

 

 

 

THE CATHERINE SHEEHAN LITERARY AWARD FOR U.S. PAPER MONEY STUDIES

 

 

 

• First place – Heinz Tschachler, “George Washington: Gallant Revolutionary” (February 2018), ($50, certificate)
• Second place – Todd Sciore, “Moore Money: A Glasshouse, A Bank and a Scandal” (December 2018), (certificate)
• Third place – Angel O. Navarro-Zayas, “Spanish Colonial Paper Money in Puerto Rico and New Orleans” (October 2018), (certificate)

 

 

 

PRUE AND ARTHUR FITTS LITERARY AWARD FOR ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL MONEY STUDIES

THE HEATH LITERARY AWARD

 

• First place – Joel J. Orosz and Leonard Augsburger, “A More Accurate History of the 1792 Half Disme” (August 2017), ($250, engraved nickel-silver medal)
• Second place – Roger Burdette, “Rescued Rarities” (June 2017), ($100 and an engraved bronze medal)
• Third place – Allan Schein, “The Identity of Pratt’s Indian” (November 2017), (engraved bronze medal)

THE WAYTE AND OLGA RAYMOND ­MEMORIAL LITERARY AWARD 

 

 

 

• First place – Pete Smith, Joel J. Orosz and Leonard Augsburger, “A More Accurate History of the 1792 Half Disme” (August 2017), ($400, certificates)
• Second place – Roger Burdette, “Rescued Rarities” (June 2017), ($200, certificate)
• Third place – David McCarthy, “Nova Constellatio: Identifying the First American Coin” (August 2017), (certificate)

 

 

 

THE CATHERINE SHEEHAN LITERARY AWARD FOR U.S. PAPER MONEY STUDIES 

 

 

• First place – David Schenkman, “Numismatic Mementos of the Glass Industry” (March 2017), ($50, certificate)
• Second place – Ray Williams, “An Evening with Uncle Ray” (September 2017), (certificate)

 

 

PRUE AND ARTHUR FITTS LITERARY AWARD FOR ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL MONEY STUDIES

THE HEATH LITERARY AWARD

• First place – Q. David Bowers, “125 Years of Collecting with the American Numismatic Association: A Milestone Celebration” (January-December 2016), ($250, engraved nickel-silver medal)
• Second place – Robert LeNeve, “The 1861-O Proof Half Dollar” (January, 2016), ($100 and an engraved bronze medal)
• Third place – John M. Kleeberg, “The Curious Persistence of the New York Shilling” (May, 2016), (engraved bronze medal)

THE WAYTE AND OLGA RAYMOND ­MEMORIAL LITERARY AWARD

• First place – Craig Sholley, John Dannreuther and Saul Teichman, “The DTS Theory of Gobrecht Dollars” and “Gobrecht Dollars: Restrikes and Cabinet Coins” (June, 2016), ($400)
• Second place – David Stone and Karl Moulton, “The Stickney-DuBois Connection” (October 2016), ($200)
• Third place – Kenneth E. Bressett, “United States Cupped Coins, 1857-2014” (April 2016), (certificate)

THE CATHERINE SHEEHAN LITERARY AWARD FOR U.S. PAPER MONEY STUDIES

• First place – Gerome Walton, “DeSoto Where?” (October 2016), ($50)
• Second place – David Finkelstein, “Henry Voigt’s Surety Bond” (February 2016), (certificate)

THE HEATH LITERARY AWARD

• First place – Eric Brothers, “The Brilliant and Corrupt Franklin Peale” Oct. 2015), ($250, silver medal and certificate)
• Second place – Ron Guth, “100 Greatest Women on Coins” Oct. 2015), ($100, bronze medal, certificate)
• Third place – Robert Bair Jr., “Legendary Collector” Aug. 2015), (bronze medal, certificate)

THE WAYTE AND OLGA RAYMOND ­MEMORIAL LITERARY AWARD

• First place – R.W. Julian, “U.S. Mint Expense Warrants of 1793”  (December 2015), ($400, certificate)
• Second place – William Hyder and Jeff Shevlin, “Die Trial: Insight into the U.S. Mint’s Medal Production” March 2015), ($200, certificate)
• Third place – Erik Goldstein, “A Present from Saint-Gaudens” (August 2015), (certificate)

THE CATHERINE SHEEHAN LITERARY AWARD FOR U.S. PAPER MONEY STUDIES

• First place – Kent Ponterio, “The First National Bank of Tustin” (Nov. 2015), ($50, certificate)
• Second place – Bart A. Stump, “Revolutionary Rarities” (Dec. 2015), (certificate)

THE HEATH LITERARY AWARD

• First place – Eric P. Newman and Maureen Levine,  “18th-Century Writings on the Continental Currency Dollar Coins” (July 2014), ($250, silver medal, certificate)
• Second place – John Nebel, “The Celator as Artist” (August 2014), ($100, bronze medal, certificate)
• Third place – R.W. Julian, ” The 1841-O Half Eagle” (July 2014), (bronze medal, certificate)
• Honorable Mention – George Kolbe, “the Tale of the Tape” (January 2014), (certificate)

THE WAYTE AND OLGA RAYMOND ­MEMORIAL LITERARY AWARD

• First place – Eric P. Newman and Maureen Levine, “18th-Century Writings on the Continental Currency Dollar Coin” (July 2014), ($400, certificate)
• Second place – R.W. Julian, “Notes on 19th-Century Silver Dollars” (December 2014), ($200, certificate)
• Third place – Donald G. Tritt, “Die-Pressed Wooden Medals and Plaques of the 1876 Centennial Exposition” (July 2014), (certificate)

THE CATHERINE SHEEHAN LITERARY AWARD FOR U.S. PAPER MONEY STUDIES

• Winner – Andrew Hurle, “Abstractions of Value” (September 2014), ($50.00, certificate)

THE HEATH LITERARY AWARD

• First place – Donald H. Kagin, “Treasury Notes of the War of 1812” (February 2013), ($250, silver medal and certificate)
• Second place – Andrew Laurie Stangel, “Medaling in politics: The Artful Satire of Karl Goetz” (November 2013), ($100, bronze medal, certificate)
• Third place – Gary M. Greenbaum, “The Other Side of the Oregon Trail Half Dollar” (October 2013), (bronze medal, certificate)

THE WAYTE AND OLGA RAYMOND ­MEMORIAL LITERARY AWARD

• First place – Richard Snow, “On the Verge of Change, 1848-55” (April 2013), ($400, certificate)
• Second place – Q. David Bowers, “The New Kids on the Block: Early Pioneers in American Numismatic Auctions” (January 2013), ($200, certificate)

THE CATHERINE SHEEHAN LITERARY AWARD FOR U.S. PAPER MONEY STUDIES

• First place – Donald H. Kagin, “Treasury Notes of 1812” (February 2013), ($50, certificate)
• Second place – Dennis Schafluetzel, “Rare Notes from a Railroad & River Hub” (May 2013), (certificate)

THE HEATH LITERARY AWARD

• First place – Ernie Nagy, “Great Numismatic Moments in American Literature” (September 2011), ($250, a bronze medal and a certificate)
• Second place – John M. Kleeberg, “Getting to the Bottom of the Seawater Uncs” (February 2011), ($100, certificate)
• Third place – Eric Brothers, “John Reich: The Mint’s Overworked & Underappreciated Engraver” (March 2011), (certificate)

THE WAYTE AND OLGA RAYMOND ­MEMORIAL LITERARY AWARD

• First place – John M. Kleeberg, “Getting to the Bottom of the Seawater Uncs” (February 2011), ($400, certificate)
• Second place – Eric Brothers, “John Reich: The Mint’s Overworked & Underappreciated Engraver” (March 2011), ($200, certificate)
• Third place – Leroy Van Allen, “Morgan Dollar ‘Micro O’ Fakes” (July 2011), (certificate)

THE CATHERINE SHEEHAN LITERARY AWARD FOR U.S. PAPER MONEY STUDIES

• First place – Mark D. Tomasko, “Lions on Steel” (May 2011), ($50, certificate)
• Second place – Todd Sciore, “The Gettysburg Connection” (July 2011), (certificate)
• Third place – Chip Scoppa, “Red ‘R’ & Red ‘S’ Revisited” (March 2011), (certificate)

THE HEATH LITERARY AWARD

• First place – Joel J. Orosz and Leonard Augsburger, “Frank H. Stewart and the First U.S. Mint,” April 2010
• Second place – Walter A. Ostromecki Jr., “Some Women behind Our Money,” May 2010
• Third place -Ernie Nagy, “Artifacts of Andrew Jackson’s Bank War,” September 2010.

THE WAYTE AND OLGA RAYMOND ­MEMORIAL LITERARY AWARD

• First place – First place – William D. Hyder and Jeff Shevlin, “The Golden Age of California State Celebrations,” December 2010
• Second place – R.W. Julian, “All About the Half Dime,” December 2010

THE CATHERINE SHEEHAN LITERARY AWARD FOR U.S. PAPER MONEY STUDIES

• Winner – Ricardo de León Tallavas, “Two Voices from a Forgotten War,” January 2010