During a board of governors meeting in May of 2022, a new Cincinnati Numismatic Association literary award was created to recognize the quality of the original articles written for its newsletter, The Cincinnati Numismatist. The governors also decided to give the award, named after Gene Hessler, retroactively back to 2020, the year of the Cincinnati Numismatic Association’s 90th anniversary.
When informed of the new award, Hessler