Anybody in U.S. Medals?

Did a search and didn't find much. I do collect medals associated with the early commemorative series.

This one is associated with the Vermont:





What cha got?

 

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Whitehead & Hoag was a private mint that made a lot of medals for various states and/or townships. This type of medal with the "Committee" designation was probably given to one of the delegates for the Sesquicentennial Celebration.

I have more than 150 medals that were made by private mints, mostly for anniversary celebrations ranging from 100-300 years.

Chris

 

I collect mostly 19th century U.S. Mint medals. I also have a number of presidential inaugural medals. I collect some 20th century medals, but the older ones are my favorites.

If this thread is still on the first page, when I get home, I will post a couple.

 

Here is another medal that was connected with the Vermont celebration, the Benninton Battle Medal. The reverse of this piece also shows Fay's Tavern which burned in the latter part of the 1800s. The reverse of this medal was considered for the reverse of the Vermont Commemorative half dollar, but ultimately the committee picked the catamount lion instead.

 

Here is my collection of Jackson, MI Centennial Medals.

 

Crude Rhode Island Tercentenary

 

A better Tercentenary, a So-Called Dollar in medal presentation

 

And this is an enormous Rhode Island medal celebrating 200 years since Georgie’s birth.

 

Thanks all for contributing!




1935 Connecticut Tercentenary Medal, Bronze, 75.7mm. Designed by Henry Kreis. Obv. Group of eight angular figures in colonial attire with scroll inscribed 1633-1935 CONNECTICUT 300 YEARS. Rev. Grape vines from the State Arms, RELIGION, LAW, EDUCATION, legend hails SELF-GOVERNMENT BASED ON CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY. Struck by Medallic Art Co.


Commemorative Medal
The official souvenir medal to commemorate Connecticut’s Tercentenary will be issued, under present plans, about November 1, this year.

It will be in bronze and about three inches in diameter. The design is by Henry G. Kreis, the well known artist, who has co-operated with Paul Manship in producing some of the outstanding medals of recent years.

On the obverse of the medal is a group of early settlers dominated by the tall figure of Thomas Hooker, and there is a scroll on which appears the phrase ‘Connecticut 1635 – 1935.’

A somewhat modernized representation of the coat of arms of the State appears on the reverse. The three vines with the nine clusters of grapes are shown, and among the vines, vertically placed, are the words ‘Religion,’ ‘Law,’ ‘Education,’ representing Connecticut’s traditional adherence to ‘Religion in a deep sense, Education in a broad sense, and Law in common sense.’ Below these words is the motto ‘*Qui Transtulit Sustinet.’ About the circumference runs the phrase ‘Three Centuries of Self-Government Based on Constitutional Liberty’ in recognition of the fact that there has existed in Connecticut for three hundred years a form of self-government which followed the principles expressed in the Fundamental Orders of 1639.

*(Latin ‘He who transplanted sustains’, also ‘He Who Transplanted Still Sustains’ or ‘[He] Who Transplanted Continues to Sustain’) is the state motto of Connecticut depicted on a blue ribbon below the grapevines.)

The first 100 or so of the medals will be numbered in the order in which they are struck off and will be packed in attractive cases, making a most pleasing and valuable souvenir of the Tercentenary celebration. These will be sold for $5.00 each. The others, about 1,800 or 1,900, will be for sale later at $1.00 a piece. Mail orders are now being taken at the office of the Commission and all applicants will be advised when the medals are ready for purchase and distribution.

A Tercentenary Medal Committee has been in charge of the work securing a souvenir of the celebration. Many designs were considered and much historical research was conducted. The chairman of the committee is George Dudley Seymour of New Haven. Mrs. H. A. Perkins of Hartford is secretary, and the other members are Mrs. Charles a. Goodwin of Hartford, Miss A. B. Jennings of Fairfield, Bancel LaFarge of Mt. Carmel, and Theodore Sizer and Alfred R. Balinger of New Haven.

Info above from my chapter on the celebration. My example is not numbered.

 

Cool!

 

I like the old medals and exonumia associated with Early Commemorative halves

 

Some say that this medal inspired or go further and say that the design for the Lafayette Dollar was stolen from this Yorktown medal.

 

Long Island SCD. Bears a passing resemblance to John Mercanti’s 2007 Jamestown gold five dollar obverse.

The 300th anniversary of the first European settlement on present day Long Island (derived from the Dutch Lange Eylandt) was cause for a large local celebration, held from May 30th to September 7th, 1936.

The Long Island Tercentenary Commemoration so-called dollar (HK694-694a) is struck on gilt copper and features the busts of a European settler and a Native American on the obverse. Unlike the coin, where the portraits are conjoined and face to the right, on the so-called dollar they face each other. The reverse features a federal eagle with a one star shield, fasces on both sides, and the inscriptions LONG ISLAND’S FIRST WHITE SETTLEMENT and 1636.