The Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG), a nonprofit organization composed of editors, authors, writers, bloggers and content producers who cover news and feature stories about all forms of money, medals and tokens as collectibles, presented its annual awards for 2018 on Thursday, August 16, in Philadelphia. This year marked NLG’s 50th anniversary.
To be eligible for consideration in any of the 2018 Numismatic Literary Guild award categories, entries must have been published, released, or posted on the Internet between May 1, 2017 and April 30, 2018.
These are the 2018 winners:
BOOK OF THE YEAR
Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles as Illustrated by the Phillip H. Morse & Stephen Duckor Collections
Roger Burdette
BEST U.S. COIN BOOK
Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles as Illustrated by the Phillip H. Morse & Stephen Duckor Collections
Roger Burdette
BEST PRE-1500 WORLD COIN BOOK
The Image of Political Power in the Reign of Nerva, AD 96-98
Nathan T. Elkins
BEST 1500 TO PRESENT WORLD COIN BOOK
A Monetary History of Central America
Brian Stickney
EXTRAORDINARY MERIT
Fake Coin Bible
Sebastian Wieschowski
BEST WORLD PAPER MONEY BOOK
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Modern Issues
Tracy L. Schmidt, Editor
BEST TOKENS & MEDALS BOOK
Forgotten Colorado Silver
Robert D. Leonard, Kenneth Hallenbeck and Adna G. Wilde
BEST NUMISMATIC INVESTMENT BOOK
Silver: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Sell Today
Jeff Garrett
U.S. COINS TO 1900 ARTICLE
"Popular Morgans Soaked Up Silver"
R. W. Julian
Numismatic News
U.S. COINS 1901 TO DATE ARTICLE
"The Identity of Pratt’s Indian"
Allen Schein
The Numismatist
BEST ANCIENTS ARTICLE
"NGC Ancients: Sea Creatures on Greek Coins"
David Vagi
NGC eNews
BEST WORLD COINS 1500 TO DATE ARTICLE
"Augustine Dupre, Engraver General of the French Revolution"
Eric Brothers
The Numismatist
BEST U.S. PAPER MONEY ARTICLE
"The Stockyards National Bank of Fort Worth"
Frank Clark
Paper Money
BEST WORLD PAPER MONEY ARTICLE
"Rule Britannia! BoE’s Warrior Queen"
Dr. K. A. Rodgers
Australasian Coin & Banknote Magazine
BEST TOKENS AND MEDALS ARTICLE
"A Navy Chaplain’s Treasured Memento"
Ron Cheek
Medal News
BEST NUMISMATIC HISTORY OR PERSONALITIES ARTICLE
"Women and Coins"
Kris Kudenholdt
NGC eNews
ED REITER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR BEST COLUMN OR SERIES
"The Curious Collector"
Len Augsburger
E-Gobrecht
BEST NUMISMATIC SPOT NEWS, MARKETPLACE OR ANALYSIS ARTICLE
"Gold Sovereigns & Triple Unites Lead British Gold Coins Auctioned in New York"
Greg Reynolds
CoinWeek.com
BEST ARTICLE OR STORY OF THE YEAR
"U.S. Money Doctors in Latin America: Between War and Depression, the Short-Lived Reinstatement of the Gold Standard"
Gilles Bransbourg
ANS Magazine
BEST PERIODICAL
COINage Magazine
Scott A. Travers, Executive Editor and Lynn Varon, Managing Editor
BEST CLUB OR NONPROFIT NUMISMATIC PERIODICAL
The Gobrecht Journal
Bill Bugert, Editor
BEST ONLINE NEWS SITE
CoinsWeekly.com
Dr. Ursula Kampmann, Editor
BEST DEALER OR INDUSTRY WEBSITE
NGCcoin.com
Numismatic Guaranty Corporation
BEST NUMISMATIC SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM OR COIN COLLECTOR FORUM
Coin Collectors Blog
Scott A. Barman, Editor
THE MAURICE M. GOULD MEMORIAL AWARD FOR BEST COLUMN
"Money Talk"
Frank J. Colletti
Lost Treasure Magazine
BEST PORTFOLIO
Steve Roach
Coin World
BEST NUMISMATIC DEALER WEB SITE
Coins.HA.com
Paul Minshull, Michael Weems, Brian Shipman, Ryan Sokol and James L. Halperin
BEST NON-TRADE WEB SITE
nnp.wustl.edu
The Newman Numismatic Portal
Len Augsburger
BEST BLOG
The Money Connoisseur
Scott A. Travers
bottomlineinc.com
BEST SOFTWARE OR APP
HA.com/live
Heritage Live
Paul Minshull, Michael Weems, Brian Shipman, Ryan Sokol and James L. Halperin
BEST U.S. COINS AUCTION CATALOG
2018 FUN, Platinum Night
Heritage Auctions
BEST WORLD COINS AUCTION CATALOG
2017 ANA Auction, Platinum Night
Heritage Auctions
BEST PAPER MONEY AUCTION CATALOG
The Joel Anderson Collection
Stack’s Bowers Galleries
BEST BOOKS OR EXONUMIA AUCTION CATALOG
The 2018 New York Book Auction
Kolbe & Fanning
LEE MARTIN FOUNDER’S AWARD
The Rosen Numismatic Advisory
Maurice H. Rosen, Editor and Publisher
BEST RADIO PRESENTATION
The Coin Show
Mike Fuljenz
KLIV 560
BEST AUDIO PRESENTATION
"Recovering Gold from the SS Central America"
Charles Morgan and Bob Evans
CoinWeek.com
BEST VIDEO PRESENTATION
"The Strange Case of the 1933 Double Eagle"
David Lisot and Greg Weinman
CoinTelevision.com
JAMES L. MILLER MEMORIAL AWARD
"Shadowy rarity: 1913 nickel first seen in 1919, not 1920"
Robert R. Van Ryzin
Numismatic News
PCGS/COLLECTORS UNIVERSE EDUCATIONAL AWARD FOR NUMISMATIC ACHIEVEMENT
John West Dannreuther
THE RIBBIT AWARD
Donald E. Willis, Jr.
THE CLEMY
David W. Lange
For information about the NLG, visit www.NLGonline.org. A membership application is available online at www.nlgonline.org/NLG_Member_Form.pdf.
