Do you know someone who has actively helped in the fight against counterfeit coins, bank notes and/or fake third-party encapsulation holders the past year? The Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation (ACEF) is seeking nominees for its third annual Alan Kreuzer Memorial Award.
“This award is a prestigious honor to 
recognize the vigorous anti-counterfeiting efforts of collectors, dealers, law enforcement agents or others who are diligently trying to protect the numismatic marketplace,” said ACEF Executive Director Robert Brueggeman.
“Previous recipients have included individuals who helped catch counterfeiters or identified suspects selling fakes, or significantly helped combat counterfeiting by generously donating to the foundation,” explained Brueggeman.
The award is named after the late Alan “Al” Kreuzer, a Castro Valley, California coin dealer who was instrumental in alerting the hobby to help identify counterfeit third-party certification holders and fake insert labels. After his death in 2016, his daughter, Chandra, donated $50,000 to help establish the Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force that now is part of ACE.
The deadline for nominating a candidate for the 2019 Kreuzer Award is May 31, 2019. Send the nomination to info@acefonline.org or fill out the nomination form below. Nominations must include the nominee’s full name, title and business affiliation, as well as nominee’s contact information and, of course, the reason he or she should be considered for the award.
The 2019 award will be presented during the Professional Numismatists Guild awards banquet on August 12, 2019, the eve of the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money® in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation that oversees the Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force. Former award-winning editor Beth Deisher is ACEF Director of Anti-Counterfeiting and coordinates the work of more than 40 task force volunteers nationwide.
Among its many accomplishments last year, the foundation and its task force provided
assistance in more than 30 active cases of counterfeit coins and precious metal
bullion products being investigated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S.
Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Secret Service, and U.S. Treasury
Department’s Office of Inspector General. One case involved the arrest of a
suspect who possessed counterfeits that could have been sold for an estimated
$48 million if they had reached the marketplace.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation is funded entirely by donations. Your tax-deductible donation may be made to the 501(c)(3) non-profit Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation by submitting the online-donation-form/ .
I WOULD NOMINATE JACK YOUNG
GEORGE SCHULTHEIS
ANA # LM 966
Thank you for you interest in nominating Jack. In order to officially nominate a candidate for the 2019 Kreuzer Award, you must include the nominee’s full name, title, business or numismatic organization affiliation, as well as the nominee’s contact information and, of course, the reason he or she should be considered for the award. There’s a handy nomination form at the end of the announcement story in the News section of our website http://www.acefonline.org that you may complete and submit or you may email the required information to info@acefonline.org by May 31, 2019.