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<p>[QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8118245, member: 20201"]I have quite the collection of exonumia. I actually find collecting medals, so called-dollars and tokens more exciting and educational than coin collecting but am probably equally involved.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an interesting niche. Wrong reverse, mismatched dies or mules. I dunno but it happens. I think if we look closely there are some to be discovered and cherry picked.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>A few of those I have</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1972 Longines Symphonette Wild Bill Hickok .925 medal CORRECT</b></p><p>This medal has the correct reverse, that of the "Wild Bill Hickok".</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1413201[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1972 Longines Symphonette Wild Bill Hickok .925 medal ERROR</b></p><p>This medal has the wrong reverse, that of the "Wounded Knee" medal from the same series. At this time, I do not know just how many correct and error versions were minted.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1413202[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1972 Longines Symphonette Wounded Knee</b></p><p>To complete this three medal set.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1413242[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p> --------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Great American Triumphs ~ Washington's Farewell to His Officers</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>CORRECT and ERROR reverse!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1413220[/ATTACH]</p><p>I have found that about 1 out of every 10 of these medals have a date on the reverse that is in error and reads December 4, 1778 instead of December 4, 1783.</p><p>About 5000 of each medal in this set was minted. Many were melted in the silver boom of the late 70's. I would estimate there are well less than 500 of these errors in existence.</p><p>They can be found at the same prices as the correct ones.</p><p>There may be other errors out there on other medals. This is a bit of a sleeper since little attention is paid to this medal in the 60 medal set. It is certainly not one of the most popular themes.</p><p>I think it would take quite a bit of time to research and check them all out.</p><p><br /></p><p> --------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1971 Annie Oakley NRA Medal from the "Nation of Riflemen" set.</b></p><p><b>1971 Annie Oakley NRA correct</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1413234[/ATTACH]</p><p>I had found the error reverse first. This medal took me over a year to track down.</p><p>It is the correct version. Of course the error is probably quite scarce or rare, I just got lucky when it showed up that way.</p><p>I bought the Punt Gun medal to make this mini three medal set</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>1971 Annie Oakley NRA error</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1413227[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect medals with an Annie Oakley theme and some other non related collectibles about her.</p><p>I was quite excited to find this one in decent condition as many have awful rub marks on the frosted areas of the medal and are also seldom offered for sale individually. This is a pretty good example.</p><p><br /></p><p>To my surprise, it had the wrong text on the reverse when it arrived. That of the medal titled "Punt Gun".</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1413235[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> --------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>And then there are just plain dumb mistakes</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1971 Milwaukee Wisconsin</b></p><p><b>The United States Conference of Mayors</b></p><p>Sterling Silver Medal - Mintage 2109</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1413238[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8118245, member: 20201"]I have quite the collection of exonumia. I actually find collecting medals, so called-dollars and tokens more exciting and educational than coin collecting but am probably equally involved. Here is an interesting niche. Wrong reverse, mismatched dies or mules. I dunno but it happens. I think if we look closely there are some to be discovered and cherry picked. [I]A few of those I have[/I] [B]1972 Longines Symphonette Wild Bill Hickok .925 medal CORRECT[/B] This medal has the correct reverse, that of the "Wild Bill Hickok". [ATTACH=full]1413201[/ATTACH] [B]1972 Longines Symphonette Wild Bill Hickok .925 medal ERROR[/B] This medal has the wrong reverse, that of the "Wounded Knee" medal from the same series. At this time, I do not know just how many correct and error versions were minted. [ATTACH=full]1413202[/ATTACH] [B]1972 Longines Symphonette Wounded Knee[/B] To complete this three medal set. [ATTACH=full]1413242[/ATTACH] -------------------------- [B]Great American Triumphs ~ Washington's Farewell to His Officers [/B] CORRECT and ERROR reverse! [ATTACH=full]1413220[/ATTACH] I have found that about 1 out of every 10 of these medals have a date on the reverse that is in error and reads December 4, 1778 instead of December 4, 1783. About 5000 of each medal in this set was minted. Many were melted in the silver boom of the late 70's. I would estimate there are well less than 500 of these errors in existence. They can be found at the same prices as the correct ones. There may be other errors out there on other medals. This is a bit of a sleeper since little attention is paid to this medal in the 60 medal set. It is certainly not one of the most popular themes. I think it would take quite a bit of time to research and check them all out. -------------------------- [B]1971 Annie Oakley NRA Medal from the "Nation of Riflemen" set. 1971 Annie Oakley NRA correct[/B] [ATTACH=full]1413234[/ATTACH] I had found the error reverse first. This medal took me over a year to track down. It is the correct version. Of course the error is probably quite scarce or rare, I just got lucky when it showed up that way. I bought the Punt Gun medal to make this mini three medal set [B]1971 Annie Oakley NRA error[/B] [ATTACH=full]1413227[/ATTACH] I collect medals with an Annie Oakley theme and some other non related collectibles about her. I was quite excited to find this one in decent condition as many have awful rub marks on the frosted areas of the medal and are also seldom offered for sale individually. This is a pretty good example. To my surprise, it had the wrong text on the reverse when it arrived. That of the medal titled "Punt Gun". [ATTACH=full]1413235[/ATTACH] -------------------------- And then there are just plain dumb mistakes [B]1971 Milwaukee Wisconsin The United States Conference of Mayors[/B] Sterling Silver Medal - Mintage 2109 [ATTACH=full]1413238[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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