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The 1.4 oz medal, which I believe is the one you have, is a gold plated issue. The mint produced a 90% gold medal, 23 mm in dia., .415 oz actual weight, .3735 troy oz., with a mintage of 181 pieces. They were also struck in various other sizes. Proceeds from these sales went to the National Scholarship Fund. These were also struck in silver and bronze. If your medal is the .900 gold version, it,s only worth scrap because of poor handling. By the way, something should be done with those nails!

 

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I have taken out the personal crap in this thread - any more shows up and I will issue infractions! No more warnings and I don't care who you are.

 

OK kids (sorry - former math teacher) let's do the math:
From the link here:
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/national-bicentennial-medal.216522/

and the above pics we see the closest match from this list to the above pics is the
- 1-5/16" / Gold, Proof finish / 1.167 troy ounces of gold / $400.00

Let's see what a medal of pure gold of same dimensions should weigh.
1. We don;t know the exact thickness (which is needed) but can estimate.
2. The pics seem to show a 1 5/16 " match for diameter = 1.3125"
3. Therefore radius = .65625
4. Volume of a circular, cylindrical surface in simplisitc form is its height time pi times its radius squared.
5. The pics seem to indicate a thickness of just under 1/8th inch. So lets use a full 1/8th (.125) and also half of that (.0625) and see if the pic of the coin's weight on the scales is somewhere in between.
For the .125 (1/8) thickness we get:
Height (thickness in this case) X 3.14 X Radius^2 (which means radius times radius)

.125 X 3.14 X .6525^2 = .1671 cubic inches of gold

The thinner calculation:
0.625 X 3.14 X .6525^2 = .0836 cubic inches of gold

according to:
http://www.aqua-calc.com/calculate/volume-to-weight

The first calculation gives a weight of 1.87 oz

The thinner calculation gives: .93 oz

The pic of the coin on the scales fits between these two - and is actually closer to the thicker one where we already know the thickness is not quite 1/8.

If I had to make an educated guess, I would say the coin is gold.

Please correct any errors for me in the above.

 

Oh come now, on CT...been a while since I have seen an incensed poster educating all the absolute novices on this board (sarcasm).

 

Geez, come here to learn/relax and it's a Trump/Hillary war zone...sad

 

In the other thread that I guess the mods took down, someone posted the order form from the US mint. It showed the 1 5/16 gold medal. That is what the OP of that thread posted. How did this get so jacked up?

 

I wish the moderators would scuttle this thread, too. Too many words have been expended over the sorriest excuse for a collectable I've ever seen.

 

That;s those chocolate coins wrapped in gold paper.

 

It may most certainly be gold from the discussion. I'm quite intrigued as there is still no sign of the gold hallmark. Perhaps it is on the edge which is not shown in details yet.

Sometimes it's inevitable for people to be skeptical due to the huge flood of counterfeits. I myself would have done the same without much evidence. That said, it's never a good idea to burn bridges.

 

Thin skin I imagine. Initially while researching into the medal before knowing that the middle size gold existed and based off the OP's simple photo of the medal in a 2x2. I had stated that I believed he might have unfortunately got swindled with a gold plated bronze. That was enough to cause an issue with personal attacks apparently. Yet even so I still took my own time researching it further and found the original order form confirming the middle sized gold coin at 1 5/16th's existed .906 gold existed. I also stated I would still like to see the exact variety of pictures that have now been posted in this thread before changing my initial determination. In all I have no hard feelings about it and I'm glad OP's coin turned out to be real.

I disagree these medals are unique piece of U.S. mint exonumia. At the time the United States mint wasn't minting any gold coins for public sale and these gold commemorative medals along with the commemorative arts medals which came a few years later in reality likely paved the way for the start of the AGE program.

 

And there we have it..... the OP and/or his supposed "Mrs" can bellyache all they want, but the fact is that in the other now-poofed thread, we were given very little in the way of information, having to guess as the size based upon a flip, etc, so it shouldn't be surprising there was some confusion. No one here can magically read minds. I too was wrong, but this is a two-way street.

 

Then if that's not how it works why was the second screen name on line yesterday at 4:59 p.m., according to the profile? @chrisild

 

Such a ban does not keep people from coming to the "surface" of the site, but it does prevent forum activity. Guess that Doug @GDJMSP knows more about how this works, but somebody who is temporarily or permanently banned cannot participate here ...

Christian

 

Thanks Christian!

 

I'll second that !

 

Good ol' drama... there is always someone trying to disturb the peace of a forum... thanks Christian!