The Chester L. Krause Memorial Distinguished Service Award (formerly the Farran Zerbe Memorial Award and ANA Distinguished Service Award) is the highest honor conferred by the American Numismatic Association.Money.org | Award – Farran Zerbe The award was formerly named after Farran Zerbe, a one-time president of the American Numismatic Association. It is given in recognition of numerous years of outstanding, dedicated service to numismatics. The criteria for the nominee should be that the individual is considered someone who has rendered numerous years of outstanding service to the ANA as well as the field of numismatics. An additional qualification is that the nominee should be a former Medal of Merit and Glenn Smedley Memorial Award recipient. The award is limited only to members of the ANA.

In 2021, the ANA Board of Governors voted to change its name to the ANA Distinguished Service Award, following an investigation that uncovered accusations of fraudulent behavior on Zerbe's part. In May 2022, the award was re-named in honor of Chester L. Krause, the founder of Krause Publications.

Winners 1950s 1951 – M. Vernon Sheldon 1952 – June T. Pond 1953 – Col. Joseph Moss 1954 – Lewis M. Reagan 1955 – Dr. J Hewitt Judd 1956 – Richard S. Yeoman 1957 – No Award Given 1958 – Burton H. Saxton 1959 – Louis S. Werner

1960s 1960 – Glenn B. Smedley 1961 – Dr. John F. Lhotka, Jr. 1962 – Lee F. Hewitt 1963 – Elston G. Bradfield 1964 – Jack W. Ogilvie 1965 – Lionel C. Panosh 1966 – J. Douglas Ferguson 1967 – Dr. John S. Davenport 1968 – Oscar H. Dodson 1969 – Eric P. Newman

1970s 1970 – Charles M. Johnson 1971 – Don Sherer 1972 – Abe Kosoff 1973 – Matt H. Rothert 1974 – Herbert Berge 1975 – Margo Russell 1976 – Fred C. Bowman and Maurice M. Gould 1977 – Chester L. Krause 1978 – William C. Henderson 1979 – John J. Gabarron

1980s 1980 – John Jay Pittman 1981 – Virgil Hancock 1982 – George D. Hatie 1983 – Clyde Hubbard 1984 – Charles L. Krause and Clifford Mishler 1985 – Adna G. Wilde, Jr. 1986 – Charles H. Wolfe 1987 – Virginia Culver and Edward C. Rochette 1988 – Adeline and Aubrey E. Bebee 1989 – Harry X. Boosel

1990s 1990 – James L. Miller 1991 – Q. David Bowers 1992 – Paul R. Whitnah 1993 – Robert L. Hendershott 1994 – Florence M. Schook 1995 – Dorothy C. Baber and Bill Fivaz 1996 – Elvira Clain-Stefanelli 1997 – Ruthann Brettell 1998 – Bert and Kenneth E. Bressett 1999 – Kenneth L. Hallenbeck

2000s 2000 – Arthur M. Kagin 2001 – Harry J. Forman 2002 – Anthony J. Swiatek 2003 – Lighthouse Family and Charles J. Ricard 2004 – Gene R. and Patricia Hynds 2005 – Joseph E. Boling 2006 – Larry J. Gentile, Sr. 2007 – Nancy Opitz Wilson and John Wilson 2008 – Gene Hessler 2009 – John Eshbach

2010s 2010 – Beth Deisher 2011 – Anthony Terranova 2012 – Arthur M. Fitts III and Prudence Fitts 2013 – David Schenkman 2014 – Neil Shafer 2015 – Donn Pearlman 2016 – Mark Lighterman and Myrna Lighterman 2017 – Brian Fanton 2018 – Cindy Wibker 2019 – Thomas Hallenbeck

2020s 2020 – Walt Ostromecki 2021 – Kerry Wetterstrom 2022 - Thomas J. Uram 2023 - Mike Fuljenz 2024 - Dwight N. Manley 2025 - James Halperin 2026 - Anthony Terranova

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