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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jaceravone, post: 1642677, member: 9474&quot;]Here is my latest edition to my exonumia collection.&nbsp; Took me a little while to afford it, but well worth the wait.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Liberty Head Dollar or SCD was produced for the 1892-1893 Columbian Expo to commemorate Columbus&#039; landing.&nbsp; Often attributed to George Morgan of Morgan dollar fame, this medal was designed by Adolph Weyl in France and struck by Wihelm Mayer in Germany.&nbsp; Produced in various diameters and metals in both high and low relief varieties.&nbsp; The medal that has the SCD (So Called Dollar) attribution measures 35mm in diameter.&nbsp; Also comes in 28mm and 90mm sizes both of which can be found every now and again on Teletrade, Heritage or Stacks auction sites.&nbsp; There are 5 known metals that have be used to create this medal.&nbsp; The first one and most common is aluminum.&nbsp; NGC has this listed as both a business strike (unc) and proof.&nbsp; After speaking with several experts in the field, it is believed that they all were proof strikes, but medals that were struck in a late die state did not exhibit the brilliance that a new die would impart.&nbsp; The second metal used was bronze.&nbsp; A little harder to find than the aluminum.&nbsp; The third metal is what they call gilt.&nbsp; In this case, it is a gold colored alloy that is covering a bronze medal.&nbsp; The last two medals are very difficult to find.&nbsp; They are a white metal version and silver version.&nbsp; I have only seen a white metal one once and have never seen a silver one although they are perported to exist.&nbsp; I have been told that the way to distinguish a white metal version from either aluminum or silver is purely by weight.&nbsp; I cannot remember what metals make up the white metal.&nbsp; To complicate matters, each metal comes in a low and high relief version.&nbsp; Low relief versions are hard to find.&nbsp; Other than the aluminum version which I have seen a handful of times, I have seen a bronze and gilt low relief versions on ebay and both were in very bad shape.&nbsp; As you can see, I only have one low relief version which is the aluminum one.&nbsp; This set has been fun to collect.&nbsp; Previous pics of my other medals in this set can be found in this thread.&nbsp; Hope you enjoy the pics.</p><p>[ATTACH]237018.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]237019.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]237021.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]237022.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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