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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1802503, member: 57463&quot;]Aside from another First Place Heath Award just as a nod to my good work, I guess I would need a Third Place to complete the set.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second Place bronze for &quot;Sir Isaac Newton at the Mint&quot; (2002) and First Place silver for &quot;The Origins of Coinage&quot; (1996).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]293103[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Any place award for an Exhibit at an ANA convention.&nbsp; You get&nbsp; a medal and thanks just for showing up, but the competition is tough, as great work is common in this competition.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]293104[/ATTACH]</p><p>They have such a nice way of saying, &quot;Thanks for showing up.&quot;&nbsp; I do not even remember what I set up. It was more important to me that I qualified as a Judge for Literature.&nbsp; (Judges get medals, too.)</p><p><br /></p><p>These exhibits are really supposed to be museum-quality and I am not an artist.&nbsp; I am a writer.&nbsp; I had just started editing the MSNS <i>Mich-Matist</i> in April of that year.&nbsp; As I was setting up, I looked over at this YN whose cases consisted of two coins and 2,000 words.&nbsp; A writer!&nbsp; I explained to his mother that the MSNS pays 10 cents per word for a maximum of $100.&nbsp; Sam Spiegel joined MSNS as a YN and sent an article (<a href="http://www.michigancoinclub.org/lydians.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.michigancoinclub.org/lydians.html" rel="nofollow">read here</a>).&nbsp; He has been doing well in numismatics.&nbsp; In 2011 he earned a First Place Kenneth E. Bressett Young Numismatist Literary Award for &quot;A Numismatic Biography of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.&quot;&nbsp; He is now at Heritage in the Ancient Coins department.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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