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Speaking of Padre Junipero Serra, did you know the Philadelphia Mint struck medals in commemoration of him by Act of Congress whose dies were engraved by Frank Gasperro . . . . . ?

Well, they did.

Z

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I had to own one of these in tribute of world events.

2014 Ukrainian Heroes of Maydan Medal.

Z

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I saw lordmarcovan had one of those in his collection and secretly hoped that if I won, in giveaway 71, I would have been the lucky one to get the Ukraine medal like you are showing. I like it!

 

J. H. STAHL Good For 5¢ Token
25mm and probably aluminum



I do not know where this is from but I suspect it could be from Lewisburg PA or a nearby community. Stahl is a common name in the area and that is where I acquired it.
Maybe a Tavern Token?

It was encrusted in goop and terribly oxidized. Totally unidentifiable.
So this is the first justified intense cleaning and restoration I ever did.
Took me all afternoon.
I cannot find another so it might be kind of scarce and I think it looks pretty good for a "cleaned" token. The streaks on the surface look like metal flow, not scratches.
I only regret I didn't take a Before image.
You wouldn't believe it was the same token.

 

Here is a purchase from this week's Central States Show. Seller's picture and description.

I had seen this on their website and asked if they could bring it to the show. The rim damage isn't as glaring in hand. I was smitten at first sight.



Shlesien Medal. Likely from Christoph Sucro

ca. 1680

AR Medal, 15.57g (32mm). This very rare medal served as a moral reminder to (married) women. The inscription on both sides reads: WORKING HARD IN THE HOME RESULTS IN KEEPING A TRANQUIL AND PEACEFUL HOME. The illustrations on the front and back illustrate this advice. On the reverse are three beehives with swarming bees (symbol of diligence), The obverse shows a snail with house between two trees (symbol of peaceful domesticity).

References: F. u. S. -; Slg. Goppel -.

 

1972 Florida Territory
150th Anniversary
Andrew Jackson
Heraldic Art Medal





Although Andrew Jackson had quite the military history and was the 7th President of The United States, this medal commemorates the Florida Territory and it's first governor.

Under the Adams-Onís Treaty, negotiated in 1819, Spain agreed to cede Florida to the United States. Spain did not formally ratify the treaty until 1821.
In March of that year, Andrew Jackson was appointed its first territorial governor in March, and was given the task of overseeing the transfer of the territories of East and West Florida from Spanish authorities.

A formal ceremony was held in St. Augustine on July 10, 1821 in which the chief United States representative was Jackson's deputy, Robert Butler. Jackson attended the ceremony held in Plaza Ferdinand VII in Pensacola, Florida on July 21, in which the Spanish flag was lowered and the American flag raised. He then made a speech to the townspeople, informing them that the land was now the Florida Territory, and that Pensacola would be its capital.



The bust of Jackson now stands at the spot where he was formally inaugurated as territorial governor. The bust was donated in 1935 by the Pensacola Historic Preservation Society.

The Territory of Florida was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 30, 1822, until March 3, 1845, when it was admitted to the Union as the state of Florida.

Jackson briefly served as Florida's first territorial governor before returning to the Senate. He ran for president in 1824, winning a plurality of the popular and electoral vote.
As no candidate won an electoral majority, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams in a contingent election. In reaction to the alleged "corrupt bargain" between Adams and Henry Clay and the ambitious agenda of President Adams, Jackson's supporters founded the Democratic Party.
Jackson ran again in 1828, defeating Adams in a landslide. In Congress, Henry Clay led the effort to reauthorize the Second Bank of the United States. Jackson, regarding the Bank as a corrupt institution, vetoed the renewal of its charter. After a lengthy struggle, Jackson and his allies thoroughly dismantled the Bank. In 1835, Jackson became the only president to completely pay off the national debt, fulfilling a longtime goal.

 

1971 Jimmy Doolittle
Heraldic Art Medal





I had posted a bronze medal of Jimmy Doolittle and the Tokyo Raid earlier in this thread here.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lets-see-your-exonumia.203005/page-586#post-8190092

No need to add much. His career and life adventures are quite amazing and can easily be looked up on the internet.

This was my 27th different Heraldic Art Medal so-called half dollar, a popular and tough one to get.

I didn't expect it to pop up in my saved searches but I did OK on it.

The obverse image is taken from this photo with Doolittle on his Curtiss R3C-2 Racer, the plane in which he won the 1925 Schneider Trophy Race. On the medal he looks more like a kid with his hat on backwards and is also on the shore rather than on the landing gear pontoon.



Not the greatest of designs in the 60 medal series but being somewhat of a scarce one.

 

1970 Charleston
Heraldic Art Co Medal





Charleston, South Carolina was founded in 1670 by English colonists. It was named Charles Town in honor of King Charles II 1660-1685.

St. Michael’s Episcopal Church was built in the mid eighteenth century, this historic church is the oldest church structure in the city and continues hosting services every Sunday and throughout the week. It is located at the Four Corners of Law, on the southeast corner of Broad and Meeting streets. George Washington worshipped here while visiting the South. Robert E. Lee attended services here too.

(It appears that the image architecture is close to but not the same as actual images I see. There are extra pillars and wings on the medal.)



This sterling silver so-called half dollar is seen far less often and sometimes will fetch some crazy money.
I think it is more common than those around 1973 to 1978 but much more scarce than the majority of the earlier 1960's. There were 3 different regular issues each year. Sometimes one or two are seen more often than the other for that year.
One occasional Heraldic Art medal was minted in addition for each year from 1961 to 1966 and then none were minted until the Bicentennial 1976 medal.
This makes a total of 67 designs in total, 60 regular and 7 occasional medals for what most would consider a complete set.

There are a few variations and perhaps a couple more very rare special minted pieces for Historical society and Coin clubs.

Do not be fooled by restrikes in copper with cancelled die marks and especially copper errors such as off center, double struck or broadstrikes.
They are much more recent and intentionally made errors by the one who has the cancelled dies.
Unaware of this, people are buying them as if they were true minting errors.
The price they fetch is outrageous.
They will continue to be made until people no longer buy them.

 

1876 International Exhibition
Memorial Medal
26mm Bronze





Most of these are found holed.
Independence Hall on the 1776 dated side and 1876 on the other and it was minted on the exposition grounds.
I remember reading about medals that were struck on-site at the Exposition on a portable press in the Philadelphia Mint's Exhibit.

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The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official World's Fair in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 10 to November 10, 1876, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
It was held in Fairmount Park along the Schuylkill River on fairgrounds designed by Herman J. Schwarzmann. Nearly 10 million visitors attended the exhibition and thirty-seven countries participated in it.

More than 200 buildings were constructed within the Exposition's grounds, which were surrounded by a fence nearly three miles long.
There were five main buildings in the exhibition. They were the Main Exhibition Building, Memorial Hall, Machinery Hall, Agricultural Hall, and Horticultural Hall.

Visitors could help fund the pedestal for which the Statue of Liberty was to be placed as the "Torch" was on display. For 50 cents one could go up inside.

 

First Step on the Moon
Eyewitness Medal
Sterling Silver Franklin Mint





A fairly easy to find medal, but still quite a historical one, I have a couple.
Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, on July 16 at 9:32 am EDT and was the fifth manned mission of NASA's Apollo program.
The Ike Dollar reverse design is borrowed the Apollo 11 flight insignia.



The Apollo spacecraft had three parts.
A command module with a cabin for the three astronauts, which was the only part that returned to Earth.
A service module , which supported the command module with propulsion, electrical power, oxygen, and water.
A lunar module that had two stages – a descent stage for landing on the Moon, and an ascent stage to place the astronauts back into lunar orbit.

After being sent to the Moon by the Saturn V's third stage, the astronauts separated the spacecraft from it and traveled for three days until they entered into lunar orbit.
Armstrong and Aldrin then moved into the lunar module Eagle and landed in the Sea of Tranquility. They stayed a total of about 21.5 hours on the lunar surface.



The astronauts used Eagle's upper stage to lift off from the lunar surface and rejoin Collins in the command module.
They jettisoned Eagle before they performed the maneuvers that blasted them out of lunar orbit on a trajectory back to Earth. They returned to Earth and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on July 24 after more than eight days in space.

The landing was broadcast on live TV to a worldwide audience.
Apollo 11 effectively ended the Space Race and fulfilled a national goal proposed in 1961 by U.S. President John F. Kennedy: "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."

As a kid, I watched a lot of NASA coverage. I was fascinated with space movies and TV shows, this was one of those events when you remember where you were that Sunday while you were watching the live TV event.
When Neil Armstrong was heard to say "The Eagle has landed!" that late afternoon.
Six hours later it was dark outside here on Planet Earth on the East Coast but everyone was glued to the TV while we watched as Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface and described the event as
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

The moon was a 30% waxing moon visible from Earth by us.
I'm sure many took a moment that day to look up and say, it's hard to believe there are men on that moon.

There are skeptics, they say it was all done in Hollywood style and staged.
Those same people are fluent in speaking Klingon, I'm sure.
I certainly believe they have been there and came back. What courage it must have taken.



1974 United States History Society
Aluminum Medals
Neil Armstrong
(From my 21 pc complete set)

 

1967 Three Gallant Men
Apollo 1
Sterling Silver Franklin Mint
National Commemorative Society





On 27 January 1967
Apollo 1 was sitting on the launch pad atop a Saturn 1B rocket at Cape Canaveral.
The Apollo 1 crew commander, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, was an Air Force veteran of the Korean War. He was among NASA's first group of seven astronauts, the Mercury Seven. Grissom was America's second person in space in 1961.

Fellow spaceflight veteran Ed White, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, was the first American to make a spacewalk, on Gemini 4 in 1965.

Roger Chaffee was a seasoned Navy lieutenant commander who joined the program in 1963.
Although a rookie in space, he had spent years supporting the Gemini program, most publicly as CapCom on Gemini 4. Now getting a chance to fly after five years in the program, he said, "I think it will be a lot of fun."

The crew was practicing the Launch procedure for the actual flight the following month.
The morning of the test, the crew suited up and detected a foul odor in the breathing oxygen, which took about an hour to fix.

Then the communications system acted up. Grissom vented at 6:30 p.m.

"How are we going to get to the moon if we can't talk between three buildings?"

With communications problems dragging on, the practice countdown was held.
Suddenly, at 6:30:54, an unidentified electrical arc ignited the Command Module’s pure, high-pressure pure oxygen atmosphere that was being used to replicate conditions in orbit.

Then at 6:31 p.m. came a frightening word from the spacecraft: "Fire."
The fire engulfed the interior capsule and the astronauts’ efforts to open the hatch and escape were in vain. Less than a minute later all three had perished.

 

1971 Apollo 14
Mini Moon Medal
Franklin Mint





I had one of these years ago and sold it and had my regrets. I think I probably got about $15 for it back then which was a pretty good price at the time.

Well, I picked up this one for a few bucks less this time around. I think I have a couple now.



Reading the certificate carefully will tell you that this medal itself never went to the moon and back.



Just some of the metal, 10,000 grains or about 20.83 troy oz that did actually fly, was mixed in with the silver it contains and these were minted with that mix afterwards. That amount could be miniscule depending on just how many medals were made from the melting pot. I am ball park guessing that these might weigh a gram each.

By my calculations from the mintage of 129,449 there was about 4000 oz of silver used. So only 1 part in 200 was the amount of silver you actually have that went to the moon these actually contain would probably weigh .077 grains.

That is a very small amount. My point being, be careful in your thinking when buying if you want one.

Some people will advertise them as such.
If you think that this actual coin flew to the moon aboard Apollo 14, you too, were taken for a ride.

 

The small medal above shows the dark side of the moon which we don't ever see.

Just for fun, I made a little collage of three moons.



I was thinking of what I see as "The Man on the Moon."
When I was a little kid, I remember saying to my mother that I could see the face of a man, but it doesn't look very good.

There I see two eyes and a big open mouth. (1st of three).

She said that isn't the man on the moon,
can't you see him? He has a hat on and is carrying a newspaper or briefcase.
(3rd of three).

Once I saw that, he is easy to find.
At different times of the year though, at full moon, the face can be very clear to see.

 

1901 Pan American Exposition
So-called Dollar HK-289
34mm Brass





Once upon a time, I bought a medal on eBay that appeared to be a silver HK-289 and the images were manipulated.

This is what this medal really looks like after it arrived in the mail.

This appears to be the most common of the three versions in quite worn condition.
At one time it was gilt brass.

 

1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition Encased Indian Cent



So far I only have three of these for Expositions and World Fairs encased cents.
The others being a 1901 Buffalo Pan-American Exposition and 1907 Jamestown Exposition that are round.
I think I will try to get different shapes if I can add another or two.
Perhaps a Bell or Chamber Pot. Panama Pacific or Philadelphia may be possible options in the future.
This one is pretty nice as they come slightly used.
There is probably a lot of luck left in it!

 

1905 Lewis And Clark Exposition
So-called Dollar HK-328









One of my favorites.
I have counted 11 variations of this basic design on different distinct medals or "So-called Dollars".
Different compositions with subtle differences and another group with a different exposition building on the reverse.

When you encounter these, you may think it is the same one over and over, but certain ones may be quite scarce.
Therefore it might be fun to put together a set and it might be expensive too.

I bought this one because I liked the natural darkening of the silver plating and hints of bronze showing through.
It is an honest souvenir and had a little travel time in somebody's pocket but not too much.
I thought it looked attractive compared to many others I have seen and had some character.

On the obverse, conjoined busts of Lewis & Clark. Postcard souvenirs of statues at the Expo.



On the reverse is The US Government Building is shown. Another souvenir postcard.

 

Quite a bit of my exonumia collection is octagonal.

Z