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Message:: [QUOTE="yakpoo, post: 860940, member: 18157"]Those are some really beautiful medals!! I don't know much about them, but have picked up a couple of the more modern ones. Most folks seem to gravite towards the more complicated designs, but I like the simpler ones, like this... <img src="http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/Yakpoo/Leibniz_Obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/Yakpoo/Leibniz_Rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> This is a massive hunk of copper (85mm, 258g) that I picked up for $12. I really like the artwork and thought that was a very reasonable price. I think it's a 1975 commemorative of Leibniz's invention of infintesimal calculus. Edit: The one above may be from Portugal. Here's one that's a bit older. I'm not sure if it qualifies as a medal. It's marked ".925 sterling" and is a presentation medal...as I learned after buying it. I was surfing the web looking for "leper colony" coins. I came across this and thought it was interesting...looks like a bottle of Jaegermeister. I don't know French, but it didn't cost much so I thought I would take a chance. <img src="http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/Yakpoo/BcQcUSwmkKGrHqQH-EIEquwH0VeBKzprMNu.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> As it turned out, this isn't a leper colony coin at all. Apparently, there was a constable with the last name of "Lepers" who worked in Berck...near Pas de Calais, France in the late 1800's. They passed a "No Poaching" law in 1876 and the "Society of Hunters Against Poaching" awarded this medal to Constable Lepers in 1891 for enforcing the "No Poaching" law. That's all I know about it, but thought it was pretty neat. I'm glad to have it in my collection...whatever it is.[/QUOTE]

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