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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chjery, post: 1457032, member: 38458&quot;]Thanks for the info.I did find out a lot of what you are saying in research. The following info is what I could find. It is quit a bit of info, but no rough value. Does anyone know what it might be?</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp; COPYRIGHT 1889 [star]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; BY THE CHICAGO CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION COMMITTEE</font></span></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times New Roman">White metal&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Weight:&nbsp; 219.8 g&nbsp;&nbsp; (14.24&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; grams)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Diameter:&nbsp; 36.9 mm&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Reverse die&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; alignment: 360°</font></span></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times New Roman">Comments:&nbsp;&nbsp; This medal was struck by Childs&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; and Company Medalists of Chicago, Illinois for the Chicago&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Centennial Celebration Committee. All examples are holed and were&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; issued with a red, white a blue suspension ribbon that was 4mm&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; wide and five inches long. The obverse shows an undraped bust left&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; portrait of Washington with the dates on the reverse.</font></span></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times New Roman">This medal was issued in several rare&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; varieties that differ in the reverse legends. Five examples have E&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; PLURIBUS UNUM in place of CHICAGO COMMEMORATION (Douglas 51B);&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; others have that area replaced with PERU ILL COMMEMORATION&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (Douglas 51E, two known) or COMMEMORATION/ SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (Douglas 51G, six known) anther variety, only discovered in 1983,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; has a reverse stating: WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL SOUVENIR above and&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; then below PUBLIC SCHOOL OLNEY, ILL. (Douglas 51D, one known). All&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; these varieties were struck by Childs and only survive in white&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; metal. Apparently several varieties were also issued in a very&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; soft pot metal that could be easily bent and thus do not survive.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Rulau and Fuld suspect other varieties may have been struck in&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; this soft metal and no longer exist.</font></span></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times New Roman">Provenance:&nbsp; Part of an anonymous donation&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; consisting of 1100 tokens and medals covering the Nineteenth&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; century, primarily up through the Civil War era.</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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