The Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG), a nonprofit organization composed of editors, authors, writers, bloggers and content producers who cover news and feature stories about allforms 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.

For information about the NLG, visit www.NLGonline.org. A membership application is available online at www.nlgonline.org/NLG_Member_Form.pdf. To be eligible for considerationin 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

The Numismatic Literary Guild (www.NLGonline.org) Board of Directors unanimously approved the appointment of Ron Guth of San Diego, California to be the NLG ExecutiveDirector starting September 1, 2018. He succeeds Donn Pearlman of Las Vegas, Nevada who agreed to serve in that role for a year following the August 2017 passing of long-time NLGExecutive Director Ed Reiter.

Guth is an award-winning author and researcher whose works include "Coin Collecting For Dummies", "The 100 Greatest Women on Coins," and the "Encyclopedia ofUnited States Gold Coins 1795-1933" (co-authored with Jeff Garrett).

A Certified Public Accountant, Guth has expertise in U.S. and world coins, operates GermanCoins.com and is a former President of Professional Coin Grading Service andPCGSCoinFacts.com.

"For decades, the NLG has been the biggest supporter of numismatic writers, giving them the recognition they deserve for what is often a labor of love," said Guth. "I lookforward to continuing the NLG's record of service and to preserve, build, and expand the NLG so that every numismatic writer will have the opportunity to hone their craft in asupportive environment."

To read the complete article, see:
Numismatic Literary Guild Names Ron Guth Executive Director(https://www.nlgonline.org/news/numismatic-literary-guild-names-ron-guth-executive-director/)

For more information on the Numismatic Literary Guild, see:
https://www.nlgonline.org/

For all of my photos of the event, see our Flickr album:
2018 ANA NLG Bash (https://www.flickr.com/photos/coinbooks/albums/72157670302250547)

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
WAYNE'S NUMISMATIC DIARY: AUGUST 19, 2018: PART 2 : NLG Bash(http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n33a26.html)