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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ZoidMeister, post: 7965140, member: 114169&quot;]I&#039;m kind of torn whether to post them here or in the exonumia thread because, well, all my stuff is exonumia.</p><p><br /></p><p>But here is the first installment.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I posted somewhere that I received a fairly fugly Thomas Cremona pattern quarter under the heading, &quot;The Quarter That Never Was.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1381005[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, in doing further research on this piece, I ran across a different large medal that seems to memorialize the original piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>This medal is huge - 51mm in diameter.&nbsp; The Thomas Cremona pattern quarter was not struck into this medal, but is actually &quot;glued&quot; into place.&nbsp; I can move it back and forth slightly.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like some of the leftover Thomas Cremona pattern quarters were gold plated and inserted into this huge silver medal.&nbsp; It weighs in at nearly 63 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope you enjoy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Z</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1381004[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1381001[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1381002[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1381003[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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