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Message:: [QUOTE="Hobo, post: 932014, member: 11521"]Day 1 at the ANA Summer Seminar. I ran into Ken Hopple who runs the Nevada State Museum in the former Carson City Mint building. Ken operates Coin Press No. 1 for demonstration purposes and to make collector medals. Ken usually brings some of his wares to Summer Seminar for the YN Auction. A couple of years he brought lead "coins" struck with actual cancelled reverse dies that were used to strike CC Morgan Dollars. (The "coins" were struck in lead due to the delicate condition of the dies. The dies had been tossed outside the Mint building and were dug up after more than a century in the ground.)  This year Ken brought 70 brass medals that commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Pony Express. (He told me the Pony Express route did cross a portion of northern Colorado so that was enough of a Colorado connection for him.) The dies were provided by an outside company. He struck only 90 of these medals and sold 20 to museum visitors who got to watch him strike them. I bought one of the medals for a small donation to the museum. The medal is high quality and has mirror fields.  Some may find it interesting that the medal has a CC mintmark on both the obverse AND the reverse. Enjoy![/QUOTE]