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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hus.thaler, post: 3137385, member: 85490&quot;]Here is a nice big copper of John Calvin, 1835.&nbsp; It is by the same medalist as PaddyB&#039;s medal in post #81 (Antoine Bovy) and minted for the same occasion (3rd Jubilee of the Protestant Reformation in Geneva).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]801346[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]801347[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing is, this one puts the <b>big </b>in &quot;big copper.&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]801348[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]801349[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If the raw numbers don&#039;t give you the visceral sense of this medal&#039;s size, here is a visual aid:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]801350[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1864, Antoine&#039;s son, Hughes, minted an homage to his father&#039;s famous medal. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]801351[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]801352[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a story out there that, sometime in the 1970s (I think) a Frenchman got his hands of the original dies (for the big one) and made a series of restrikes.&nbsp; The important part of the story is that the Frenchman was not a medalist but a chocolatier, and his medium was most definitely not bronze.&nbsp; How about that for the ultimate chocolate coin?&nbsp; That bit absolutely makes me laugh way more than it should.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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