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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 7710234, member: 97383&quot;]The medalette commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Syracuse Numismatic Association arrived this week &amp; I finally got a chance to photograph it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I call it a medalette because it seems too large for a token &amp; too small for a medal <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. It was struck in bronze, patinated &amp; then burnished, measures 32.10 mm, &amp; weighs 12.95 gm. I bought the dies for the medalette over 30 years ago at auction &amp; was never able to locate a sample struck from these dies. New <b>CT</b> member <b>Dan Strizzle</b>, inherited a small hoard of these medalettes struck from the dies a gave me one <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, pictured below along with the dies. The dies were engraved by Alphonse Kolb, who immigrated from Germany &amp; settled in Rochester, NY. Kolb was educated in classical art &amp; greatly admired the great coin engravers from ancient Sicily. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1322656[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1322657[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1322658[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1322660[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Kolb also made the storecard dies pictured below in ancient Greek style for a Rochester, NY coin dealer in the 1950s.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1322663[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1322665[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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