My 2021 FUN Exhibit - Presidential Inaugural Medals, 1901 - 1961

Do you happen to have any information regarding an 1893 G. Clevland A. Stevenson Inaugural Badge that is silver? I have looked everywhere and cannot get any information.

 

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I am not quite sure want you want. Grover Cleveland was inaugurated on March 4, 1893. His full name was Stephen Grover Cleveland although he never used the first name very much in public.

As for the official inaugural medal, this is the piece. It was issued with several different titles on the ribbon depending upon the role of the inauguration volunteer in the ceremony. All of my references say this was only issued in bronze.



There were some unofficial inaugural pieces that noted the event. The variety that is listed in the Edmund Sullivan book on campaign pieces was only issued in copper and white metal. Perhaps you have one of the white metal pieces. It has a portrait of Cleveland on the obverse, facing left, and a scene of the capital, similar to the one shown above on the reverse.

I don't have one of those pieces.