The award honors an artist whose cumulative lifetime achievements in the field of medallic sculpture have been of the highest order.
| 2022 Amanullah Haiderzad | 2021 Paul Huybrechts | 2020 Victor Huster | 2019 Magdalena Dobrucka |
| 2018 Carston Theumer | 2017 Richard Bonham | 2016 Bogomil Nikolov | 2015 Angelo Grilli |
| 2014 Run Dutton | 2013 James Malone Beach | 2012 Mashiko Nakashima | 2011 Michael Meszaros |
| 2010 Ivanka Mincheva | 2009 Merlin Szasz | 2008 Jim Licaretz | 2007 Jeanne L. Stevens-Sollman |
| 2006 Leonada Finke | 2005 Garrett Burke | 2003 Ron Landis | 2002 T. James Ferrell |
| 2001 John Michael Mercanti | 2000 Thomas D. Rogers Sr. | 1999 Hal Reed | 1998 Gerta Weiner |
| 1997 Virginia Janssen | 1996 Edward Steever IV | 1995 Patricia Verani | 1994 John Everhart II |
| 1993 Chester Martin | 1992 Dora de Pedery-Hunt | 1991 Eugene Daub | 1990 Alex Shagin |
| 1989 Marika Somogyi | 1988 John Cook | 1987 Michael Jovine | 1985 Phillip R. Nathan |
| 1984 Anthony T. Jones | 1982 Adlai Hardin | 1981 Joseph Kiselewski | 1980 Bruno Mankowski |
| 1979 Donald De Lue | 1978 Miko Kaufman | 1977 Karen Worth | 1975 Robert Weinman |
| 1974 Abram Belskie | 1973 Gertrude Lathrop | 1972 Elizabeth Jones | 1971 Ralph Menconi |
| 1970 C. Paul Jennewein | 1969 Edward R. Grover | 1968 Frank Gasparro | 1967 Gilroy Roberts |
| 1966 Paul Vincze |