[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Designer Walker Hancock Diameter 70 mm Mintages 3 in gold, 1,033 in silver, 21,705 in bronze Notes: President Eisenhower...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Designer Jo Davidson Diameter 45 mm Mintages 10 in gold, 2 in silver, 3,500 in bronze Notes: Artist Jo Davidson captured...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Designer Paul Manship Diameter 76 mm Mintages 2 in gold, 4 known in silver,1,500 in yellow bronze, 50 in finished bronze...
I went to the trouble to do this exhibit, which might never be shown, so I'm going finish this out with a few of my favorite pieces. Herbert...
I agree. Auctions are often the pits. You almost always get driven too high if you win and get tired of losing. I hate buyers' fees. People say,...
It all depends upon which dealers you lose. There are few dealers I will never miss is they didn't darken the doors again.
I don't think the Summer FUN is that much of a comercial show. The Winter FUN is another story. Of course the collectors they bus in might fool me...
2 inches or 50.5 mm
Looks like an MS-65 by today’s standards. The reed make at the bottom of the cheek might take it to MS-64+.
Rating presidents has become political. Historians now give Grant high marks because he broke the KKK in the South. But then you ask, "What about...
It was one of his trademarks. Here is a campaign piece from his 1904 presidential campaign. [ATTACH] Franklin D. Roosevelt idolized his cousin,...
He failed after he left the presidency too. He got involved in a Wall Street investment firm with a “Bernie Madoff” type character who ripped off...
This is one of two U.S. Grant tokens that were known to have been issued during the Civil War. Although Grant is known to history as the premier...
[ATTACH] It took me about a year to find one of these medals that I liked. Finding one is not that hard, if you know the token and medal dealers,...
The Philadelphia Mint issued this small medal (31 mm) during the Civil War to celebrate the fact that the mint personnel had taken an oath of...
I don't collect any of the medals "that almost were." I have stuck to the official pieces in bronze, except for the silver Kennedy piece, which is...
The second very tough inaugural medal is the 1925 Calvin Coolidge medal. I downloaded these pictures from Heritiage Auctions. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Let's cover the two rare medals that are missing from most collections, including mine. These photos are from the Smithsonian: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Designer Joseph K. Davison’s and Sons Company “in house” project Diameter 51 mm Mintages 3 in gold, 3,000 in bronze Notes:...
Since this subject seems to have run its course, I'll post the other Theodore Roosevelt medal and leave it at that. If any of you would like some...
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