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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8321027, member: 20201&quot;]<b>1971 Jimmy Doolittle</b></p><p><b>Heraldic Art Medal</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473927[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473928[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I had posted a bronze medal of Jimmy Doolittle and the Tokyo Raid earlier in this thread here.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lets-see-your-exonumia.203005/page-586#post-8190092" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lets-see-your-exonumia.203005/page-586#post-8190092">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lets-see-your-exonumia.203005/page-586#post-8190092</a></p><p><br /></p><p>No need to add much. His career and life adventures are quite amazing and can easily be looked up on the internet.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was my 27th different Heraldic Art Medal so-called half dollar, a popular and tough one to get.</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t expect it to pop up in my saved searches but I did OK on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473929[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Not the greatest of designs in the 60 medal series but being somewhat of a scarce one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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