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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 8207859, member: 42773&quot;][USER=96124]@Heavymetal[/USER]: that&#039;s a very interesting bit of exonumia. I hadn&#039;t seen those medals before. From what little research I did online, they were awarded by the US Treasury Department to people who bought a certain amount of WWII bonds. Every relevant source seems to say they&#039;re sterling silver. I bought the cheapest one I could find on eBay, although it looks more like brass than sterling. Maybe that&#039;s just the pic. We&#039;ll see what it&#039;s like in hand in a few days.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438965[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m assuming they were struck by the US Mint, unless the Treasury contracted them out to a private mint. I couldn&#039;t find any info on that. I&#039;m also assuming they were issued in or after 1954, as the reverse is the famous Iwo Jima Memorial which wasn&#039;t unveiled until 1954. It seems odd to me that the Treasury was issuing awards for patriotic bond-buying nine years after the end of the war, but maybe not - the wheels of government sometimes churn very slowly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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