Mr. Crabb holds SPMC member #3285 and honorary life member #4. He served as chairman of the Memphis Coin Club's International Paper Money Show for many years. He served as SPMC governor 1976-1996, publicity chairman in 1992 and was chair of the nominating committee in 1978 and 1992. He was awarded the Nathan Gold award in 1977 and an ANA President's award in 2011.
Mr. Allan has SPMC membership #1477 and is life member #311. He served as SPMC governor from 1982-1986; was chairman of the nominating committee in 1984. He won the Dr. Glenn Jackson Literary award in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and the Julian Blanchard Exhibit Award in 1969, 1972, 1973, 1978 and 1995.
A renowned author and researcher, Mr. Reed holds SPMC membership #4912. He served the SPMC as secretary from 1998-2012; governor 1998-2001; nominating committee chair 1999 and Wait prize chair 1999-2014. He also served as editor for Paper Money from 1999-2014 taking the publication to new highs and winning multiple ANA and NLG awards for the magazine. He was award a president's award of merit in 2000 and 2012 and the Nathan Gold award in 1996 and 2001. He was the first recipient of the Forrest Daniel Excellence in Literature award in 2007.
Mr. Pick held SPMC member #352. He received a president's award of merit in 1972 and the Nathan Gold Memorial Award in 1975. He was the author of Standard Catalog of World Paper Money which by many elevated world paper money collecting to a position it had never approached before his first catalog came out in 1975. .
Mr. Kelly is SPMC member #1594. He was award a president's award of merit in 1998 and won multiple literary awards for articles in Paper Money. He received the Nathan Gold Memorial award in 1987. He is the author of the definitive work on national banknotes, National Banknotes; A Guide with Prices. Mr. Kelly was also awarded an ANA President's award in 2011.
Mr. Higgins holds SPMC member #2950. He was awarded the Nathan Gold Memorial award in 1986. In 1978, he founded the Higgins Museum of National Banknotes in Okoboji, Iowa. The museum is purposed with the acquisition, preservation and display of the notes, related artifacts and pertinent reference materials relating to the National Bank Note issuance era.
Author of the massive four volume reference Standard Catalog of United States Obsolete Banknotes 1782-1866, he received a president's award of merit in 1989.
Mr. Herzog is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Museum of American Finance and Chairman Emeritus of Spink/Smythe, an auction house specializing in antique stocks and bonds, bank notes, coins, autographs and photographs. He along with his wife Diana were recipients of the SPMC's Nathan Gold Memorial Award in 2009.
Milt was SPMC #1370. Considered by many to be the Father of fractional currency collecting, Milt assembled one of the most complete and comphrehensive collections of fractional ever formed. It was lacking just one note when it was sold by CAA at the 1997 FUN show. Milt was a prolific author, researcher and exhibitor. His Encyclopeidia of Postage and Fractional Currency is still the definitive reference on the subject today. At the 1984 IPMS in Memphis, he and 24 other fractional collectors formed the Fractional Currency Collectors Board, a club dedicated to fractional currency.
SPMC member #2816, Mr. Durand was a collector of obsolete bank notes and scrip. He served as president of the SPMC 1987 to 1989; vice-president 1983-1987; treasurer 1979-1983; librarian 1994-1999; governor 1981-1988; wismer award chairman 1991-1992 and was chairman of the life membership committee, finance committee, publicity committee and served on the member recruitment committee. A very prolific author, he had many articles published in Paper Money and in 1977 he received the first SPMC literary award.
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