Wismer Award
Given to the author of the best new book.
Education, Research, Outreach Award
For significant contributions to SPMC's emphasis on Education, Research and Outreach.
For making significant contributions to the body of knowledge related to their state specializations in the ODP we recognize these two gentlemen.
Forrest Daniel Award for Literary Excellence
Given in recognition for exceptional literary achievements.
Nathan Goldstein Award--Corporation
Top new member recruiter as part of a corporation or business.
Nathan Goldstein Award--Individual
Top new member recruiter as an individual.
President's Award
Presented by the President to person(s) deemed to have provided service to SPMC in the past year worthy of recognition.
For setting up at various shows and promoting SPMC, we honor Robert Calderman and Gary Dobbins. For his work on Education, Research and Outreach, including leading the effort to craft a new mission statement, and updating the grant process, we honor Loren Gatch.
Founders Award
For outstanding achievement during the past year. Having a substantial background in law enforcement, in the 1980s he founded the Numismatic Crime Information Center, which brings a great deal of coordination among collectors, dealers and agencies in the prosecution of crimes and recovery of stolen numismatic items. In more recent years he has taken on the huge responsibility of coordinating the IPMS as bourse show chairman.
Louis Van Belkum
Mr. Van Belkum was SPMC member # 707 and received the Nathan Gold award in 1976. He was a school teacher in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His main interest was National Banknotes. He started his research by him and his wife Barbara undertaking marathon driving trips to DC, whereupon they wrote frantically and doggedly eventually assemble some 5,000 type-written pages of data.The birth of the modern era of national bank note collecting can be definitively fixed at 1968 when Louis Van Belkum's landmark National Banks of the Note Issuing Period, 1863-1935 was published.
Hugh Shull
Hugh is a world renowned dealer, author and expert in the field of United States Obsolete and Confederate Currency for over 40 years. He is Life Member #6 of the SPMC. He has been co-author, advisor or contributor to many books on obsolete and confederate currency, including Grover Criswell's Confederate Paper Money published in 1996.He wrote A Guide Book of Southern States Currency; History, Rarity and Values in 2007. He was named a Numismatic Ambassador by Krause Publications in 1992.
