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<p>[QUOTE="Wehwalt, post: 1834543, member: 33595"]Very likely, I don't monitor it constantly. I look out for the Mint medals created for Superintendents; I also have ones for Herman Kretz (1895) and Adam M. Joyce (1917). All three (including Bosbyshell) by Morgan.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's another I bought (because I liked it) and to illustrate on Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]303692[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]303693[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is the original Children's Founders Roll medal from the Stone Mountain Memorial fundraising, those minded to read the whole ugly story can go here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain_Memorial_half_dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain_Memorial_half_dollar" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain_Memorial_half_dollar</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>This one was designed by Gutzon Borglum, the original sculptor at Stone Mountain. It was discontinued after they fired him and a new one (rounded) was issued. As Borglum also designed the half dollar, this is the more numismatically interesting because they are both intended to illustrate his design for the memorial.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Wehwalt, post: 1834543, member: 33595"]Very likely, I don't monitor it constantly. I look out for the Mint medals created for Superintendents; I also have ones for Herman Kretz (1895) and Adam M. Joyce (1917). All three (including Bosbyshell) by Morgan. Here's another I bought (because I liked it) and to illustrate on Wikipedia: [ATTACH=full]303692[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]303693[/ATTACH] This is the original Children's Founders Roll medal from the Stone Mountain Memorial fundraising, those minded to read the whole ugly story can go here: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain_Memorial_half_dollar[/url] This one was designed by Gutzon Borglum, the original sculptor at Stone Mountain. It was discontinued after they fired him and a new one (rounded) was issued. As Borglum also designed the half dollar, this is the more numismatically interesting because they are both intended to illustrate his design for the memorial.[/QUOTE]
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