I am pleased to announce the recipient of the 2017-2018 New Jersey Numismatic Society (NJNS) Charles F. Nettleship Award, as deemed by all pastawardees to be a worthy candidate.

This individual has served the New Jersey Numismatic Society as a current officer, providing a leadership role in society activities and business.His interests include Early American Coppers, Tokens, Jetons and World Coins. He has shared his knowledge and expertise in multiple areas throughpresentations and articles written for several numismatic publications, including those serving the everyday collector as well as scholarlyjournals.

I have personally witnessed his enthusiastic leadership at NJNS meetings and other numismatic activities. He has demonstrated all the qualitiessought by one of our founding fathers, Charles F. Nettleship.

Charles F. Nettleship was the founding father of the NJNS in October, 1933. In 1982, he donated $50.00 to the Society and it was decided toestablish a service award in his name. Nominations are made by past awardees at the October meeting. If a nominee is to be named; the NettleshipMedal, suitably engraved, will be presented to the member deemed most worthy by reason of his service to the Society.

Nettleship Award Recipients:

1. Herbert Oechsner 1983
2. Robert Schonwalter 1984
3. Ernest Keusch 1985
4. James Heath 1986
5. Harold Flartey 1987
6. Harry Resigno 1988
7. Herbert Silberman 1989
8. Charles Davis 1991
9. Spencer Peck 1992 251
10. Arno Safran 1994
11. Chris Connell 1995
12. Steve Middleton 1996
13. Malcolm Heckman 1997
14. Ray Williams 1999 283
15. Ernest Keusch 2000
16. David Lange 2001
17. Ron Thompson 2004
18. Michael Fey 2007
19. Arnold Miniman 2010-2011
20. David Ginsberg 2011-2012
21. Carl Feldman 2012-2013
22. David Bailey 2013-2014
23. Peter Laconte 2014-2015
24. Walter Chinoy 2015-2016
25. Jeff Burke 2017-2018