Hope to post a picture this weekend. It's ..... Obverse...Thomas Crittenden First Governor of Vermont Reverse...Sesqui-Centennial of The Statehood of Vermont 1791-1941 Looks like gold but feels like brass. 11.0 grams and ever so slightly larger than a US half dollar Marty
Brass medal, probably from 1941, celebrating Vermont's sesquicentennial. The weight rules out being gold.
Yeah, I figured gold was out ..... Any idea where I can get a value ? It's a keeper, but still curious. So, it's a coin of some sorts, right ? Marty
Such medals typically sell for <$1, unless there is a collector of memorabilia in the category of the medal available. Yup. No, as stated in my first post, it's a commemorative medal. Round metallic items can be broadly categorized as: Coins - Government issued money, bearing a denomination and indicia of the issuing administration Tokens - Privately issued money-substitute, such as telephone tokens, bus tokens, game tokens, etc., and small change provided by merchants or others when the government doesn't provide enough Medals - Items designed to honor a person (example - the Congressional Medal of Honor) or event (example - the 150th anniversary of the admission of Vermont to the Union as a State). There are, of course, exceptions and variations, but those definitions cover the vast majority of cases.
Whoopsie ! Sorry about the misread... Now I understand. Thanks for educating me. I'll put this in my collection. I recently found with my metal detector an Evinrude Elto Brass "Certified Brake Horsepower" token. Which is very cool ! Marty
