A panel of judges has selected "Paper Money" to receive the first place award in the specialty category of their annual Club Publications contest. This is a great honor and is to be shared with all of our wonderful authors, columnists, proofreaders and other contributors. Without them, "Paper Money" would not exist.

This award is the culmination of a lot of hard work by many dedicated people who have endured and overcome challenges and obstacles during the past year.

     On-line voting for articles that appeared in Paper Money in 2014 as well as favorite column and book-of-the-year will be closing soon--on May 22. You may vote on your favorite articles in the categories of Confederate, World, Obsolete, Nationals, Small-size and Other Federal as well as your favorite column and book.

     One vote per category is available at https://spmc.org/vote. 

You can now get links for the Memphis International Paper Money Show. Both the bourse application and the exhibit application are located at http://www.memphisipms.com/AppLanding.asp.

Frank Clark, long time SPMC member and current membership director was awarded the Nathan Gold Award for service at the SPMC breakfast in Memphis. Clark has served in a number of capacities for the SPMC, including multiple stints as governor and two terms as President.  "Frank is a truly dedicated member of the SPMC and is willing to do anything asked" said past President Benny Bolin.  Helping present the award were two recent recipients of the same award, Len Glazer and Allen Mincho. 

Our efforts to improve your experience on the SPMC website continue with a new search engine.  The most noticeable impact will be on your search for specific content within our journals.  You also have the ability to further refine your searches using filters at the bottom on your results page.

Members, look for the search tools on the banner and on the main journals page.

Sign up for the Twitter Feed from the 53rd Annual Red River Valley Coin Club Coin Show at Fargo, ND, with special coverage for the auction of Glen Jorde's North Dakota Collection.

Whenever you start or renew your membership with SPMC (or on the first day of the year for life members), you are awarded 2000 userpoints.  These are redeemable for free classified ads on the SPMC website.

Points equate to $0.01 each. The current rate for classified ads on the SPMC website is $0.15 per word per month. You can place your classified ad by clicking here: Create a Classified Ad.

Be sure to take advantage of this opportunity to let your colleagues know what you want to buy or sell.