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.: Paul Fiocca Award
Awards
J. Douglas Ferguson Award
Paul Fiocca Award
Louise Graham Memorial Club of the Year Award
Fellow of the C.N.A. Award
Guy Potter Literary Award
Jerome H. Remick III Literary Award
Best of Show Award
Local & Regional/National Newsletter Awards
Jean Bullen Award
The Paul Fiocca Award is the highest distinction presented by the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association, and the second highest award in Canadian Numismatics. The award is presented annually for “Long term meritorious service or major contributions to the C.N.A.” and is an award not just to recognize the elite of the hobby, but any individual who may have worked behind the scenes, often for many decades, for the betterment of the Association.
This award is strictly an C.N.A. award for C.N.A. members, and is not to be confused with the J. Douglas Ferguson award, the highest award in Canadian numismatics, which does not require membership in the C.N.A.
Paul Fiocca was publisher of Canadian Coin News from 1989 until his retirement, remaining a supporter of Canadian numismatics and giving freely of his own time and expertise. He served as editor of The CN Journal for a number of years, and was serving the C.N.A. in that capacity at the time of his death in 2007. The award that bears his name is funded by donations from Trajan Publishing Corporation and others that were his friends.
The President of the Association presents the Paul Fiocca Award at each year’s annual C.N.A. convention to a Canadian Numismatic Association (C.N.A.) member.
An Independent Board of Award selects the annual recipient. The Board consists of five members. 1. The current C.N.A. President. 2. A senior Executive of Trajan Publishing Corporation. 3-5. Three other senior R.C.N.A. members appointed by the C.N.A. President and Trajan Publishing Corporation, at least one who is a past C.N.A. president. The board selects a chairman each year and calls for nominations. Nominations are welcomed from any member of the C.N.A. The award is given exclusively to a living C.N.A. member who had not previously received the award.
The award consists of a walnut plaque with a gold plated inscription and with two current year C.N.A. convention medals imbedded, and a separate framed Certificate of Award listing the accomplishments of the recipient.
The first recipient is James E. Charlton, one of Canada's most distinguished numismatists. The announcement was made July 19th during the annual awards banquet of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association and the actual presentation was made several days later in Grimsby, Ontario. Mr. Charlton, the current honourary president of the C.N.A., is often referred to as the dean of Canadian Numismatics, or the father of modern numismatics in Canada. Charlton is best known for his Standard Catalogue of Canadian Coins. “While the Certificate of Award could have listed Mr. Charlton’s significant contributions to the Association, it reads simply “For Long Term, Meritorious Service to the C.N.A.”
The J. Douglas Ferguson Award
2008 James E. Charlton