Jarrod Ranney was one of our first awardees. He received his grant in 2024 to fund his research into coins that celebrate Delaware, which was the subject of a numismatic exhibit he was submitting to the Winter FUN show in 2025.

Now living in Florida, Jarrod had grown up in Delaware, and a way to connect with Delaware was through the Delaware quarters released in 1999. As Jarrod puts it on his website, “this collection [of Delaware coinage] is meant as a love letter to a state I called home for much of my life.” He applied to LCF for a grant to explore the background of many Delaware coins, and the information he needed was not found online, but at the Delaware Historical Society. Part of the grant included travel costs to get to the archives, which were not online.

Yet when Jarrod got to the Historical Society, it turns out they did not have the information he needed, so he continued his search. Most, but not all of his questions