Hello everyone ! Today is Monday again folks . To Celebrate, post a Coin or Medal depicting a Monument or Memorial building if that's all you have. Here's my Medal - William Penn on top of the Victorian City Hall in PA . Also, a song for your enjoyment while you scan others coins and medals.
I am hoping World coins are allowed ? France... L'Alhambra..look at the depth...amazing to me. Scratches are on the airtite not the coin.
The reverse of this coin depicts the famous camp gate known as the Porta Nigra, built circa AD 170 in Trier, Germany. Since the coin is so small (19 mm) & the dies were hand engraved, the engraver did a scaled-down version of the gate. Pictured below is what still stands of Porta Nigra today.
My cameo proof 1966 Ireland Ten-pence. This, along with the uncirculated are going to NGC soon for grading. Both should come back a 66 minimum.
Here's a Volunteer Firemen's Medal and Monument made for the City of Reading, Pennsylvania. Must have been a great day for the City with their beautiful Monument and a Medal that was minted by the US Mint, likely a very low mintage!
The French Legion of Honor awarded to Cyrus McCormick: The French government named McCormick an Officier de la Légion d'honneur in 1851, and he was elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1878 "as having done more for the cause of agriculture than any other living man."
