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Message:: [QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8218064, member: 20201"]1939 New York Worlds FairWashington MedalStacks Dealers in Coins Aluminum 29 mmBaker 737NGC MS-63 [ATTACH=full]1442713[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1442714[/ATTACH] I picked this medal because it is considerably less often seen than the typical and varied 1939 New York Worlds Fair medals with the Trylon and Perisphere. It fills the slot for the Fair in my collection.This is not an expensive medal, but it is already slabbed and worse raw examples have sold for around the same cost. So this is convenient for me. Unfortunately, One would think that there would be more historical information available for this prestigious rare coin name.I am not 100% sure, but I believe that today, Stacks Rare Coins is part of the famous Stacks Bowers, if not one and the same. When the Stacks had this medal minted for advertising at the 1939 New York Worlds Fair they were only in business a few years.In the mid 1930's Joseph and Morton Stack set out to avoid the "Old Curiosity Shoppe" image that was so typical of retail coin shops of the time.To the Stacks, the image to be projected in their first offices at 690 Sixth Avenue was one of dignity, perfected in their later uptown facility at 12 West 46th Street.( there is a discrepancy here as the street number is 32 W 46th St on the medal.)Since 1953, this decorous, museum-like ambience has been continued in the firm's present headquarters at 123 West 57th Street, New York City.Looking at Stacks Bowers webpages, I see they have several offices world wide. One address is 123 West 57th Street. [ATTACH=full]1442715[/ATTACH] "The slab" [ATTACH=full]1442718[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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