The American Numismatic Association's 2024 literary awards - recognizing articles published in the 2023 volume of its official magazine, The Numismatist - will be presented during the Member Awards and Donor Celebration at the Chicago World's Fair of Money® on Aug. 8. The Numismatist was launched by ANA founder and first editor Dr. George F. Heath in 1888. This year marks its 137th volume.

The Heath Literary Award, introduced in 1949, acknowledges outstanding articles published in the preceding 12 months.

The Wayte and Olga Raymond Memorial Literary Award, endowed in 1978 by the late John J. Ford Jr., is presented for articles that display original and comprehensive research in U.S. numismatics.

Founded by an anonymous donor, the Catherine Sheehan Literary Award for Paper Money Studies includes $50 and a certificate for first place.

The Prue and Arthur Fitts Literary Award for Ancient and Medieval Coinage Studies recognizes literary excellence in those fields.

Honorable mentions for this year include "The Case of the Missing U.S. Diplomatic Medal" by Eric Brothers (August 2023) and "Civil War Postage Stamp Envelopes" by Christopher Bulfinch (November 2023).

All feature articles published in The Numismatist automatically are considered for the Heath Literary Award; likewise, all qualifying articles are evaluated for the Raymond, Sheehan and Fitts Awards. For information about submitting manuscripts for review and possible publication, visit money.org/the-numismatist/submission-guidelines.

The 2024 ANA Young Numismatist (YN) Literary Awards were announced during the ANA's annual Summer Seminar Banquets. The three award categories are generously funded by Whitman Publishing and named after authors dedicated to educating the next generation of numismatists.

The Bill Fivaz Young Numismatist Literary Award honors writers who are aged 8 to 12. This year's first place recipient was John Swindling for "The History of the 2010 Boy Scouts of America Centennial Silver Dollar." Urso Blackburn received second place with "Flora and Fauna on U.S. Non-Gold Coins." In third place was Georgia VanDaniker for "Why Coin Collecting is Fun."

The Q. David Bowers Young Numismatist Literary Award honors writers who are aged 13 to 17. This year's first place recipient was JP Coogan for "The Phrygian Cap." Veera Anand placed second with "The First South Indian Revolutionary Queen 'Rani Mangammal'" and Jackson Hancock took third with his paper "Cowry Shells as Currency in the Mali Empire."

The Kenneth E. Bressett Young Numismatist Literary Award is given to writers between the ages of 18 and 22. This year, first place was won by Rene D. Alvarenga for "Inspiration in Your Pockets." No second or third place entries were awarded this year.

The first-place winners received a $500 cash prize, plus a $500 voucher with which to build a personal library of numismatic books produced by Whitman Publishing. Second- and third-place winners received book vouchers for $200 and $100, respectively. To learn more about this program, visit money.org/american-numismatic-association-awards>money.org/american-numismatic-association-awards.>money.org/american-numismatic-association-awards.

ANS President Ute Wartenberg Kagan has been named the recipient of the 2024 Burnett Anderson Memorial Award for Excellence in Numismatic Writing. This award honors researchers, authors, and journalists for their career contributions to numismatics, and is presented by the ANA and the ANS and with the participation of the Numismatic Literary Guild. The award will be presented at the ANA convention awards banquet on August 9, 2024.

For more information, see:
Recipients of the Burnett Anderson Memorial Award(https://numismatics.org/burnettandersonwinners/)