Serge Pelletier and William Cross received some lofty and well-deserved recognition from the hobby at the 62nd annual convention of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association (RCNA). Pelletier was given Canadian numismatics’ highest honour, the J. Douglas Ferguson Award, for his great contributions to the advancement of the hobby in Canada over the past 12 months; however, his work in numismatics goes back much further than the past year. And Cross, who has been involved in the hobby for an equally long time, earned the Paul Fiocca Award for his long-term meritorious service to the RCNA. He recently retired and sold Charlton Press, the renowned numismatic publishing company he took over from James E. Charlton in 1980. Continue reading →
Serge Pelletier (right) is given the highest honour in Canadian numismatics, the J. Douglas Ferguson Award, by Ron Greene.
