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Message:: [QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 1125289, member: 24633"]It is almost a given that the medal was made in France, and I'm wondering if it was struck by the Monnaies de Paris. If so, there would be a mintmark and possibly metallic composition (bronze?) on the edge. The Paris Mint did not adopt the cornucopia as a permanent mintmark for medals until 1880. Also, the Universal Exposition was the equivalent of what we call the "World's Fair", and I have numerous French medals for various years of the "Exposition Universelle". Note that on the medal advertising Thibaut's company it has "Exposition Universelles" with both the dates for Paris & Vienna. The other medal which Dutch mentioned had only the date for Paris (1867). This is why I think these were medals that were made as handouts or to sell at those expositions just like the merchants and businesses who had the so-called dollars produced for the Columbian Exposition.  This is also why I contend that these medals were actually uniface test strikes, and the holes were subsequently added by someone else for mounting purposes. Chris[/QUOTE]