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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 5293424, member: 101855&quot;]<b>John F. Kennedy</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>1961</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222349[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Senate majority leader, Lyndon Johnson, was John F. Kennedy&#039;s running mate in 1960. </i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222347[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Bronze Medal</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1222348[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Silver Medal</b> <i>An aggressive ad campaign led to an unprecedented sale of the Kennedy inaugural medal in silver with total sales of 7,500 pieces. </i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Designer</b> Paul Manship</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Diameter</b>&nbsp; 70 mm</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Mintages</b>&nbsp; 1 in gold, 7,500 in silver, 53,331 in bronze</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Notes:</b> Paul Manship, who designed the 1933 FDR medal, designed this piece for the Kennedy inauguration. John Kennedy requested that the Presidential Seal appear on the reverse. Manship’s portrait of a youthful, yet dignified John F. Kennedy has been widely admired. The sales of the bronze and silver medals hit unprecedented levels due to an aggressive sales campaign. Bronze sales more than doubled the previous high, and silver medal sales were seven times greater than the previous record. Examples of the silver medal were closely held after Kennedy’s assassination, but more examples have become available to collectors in the recent decades.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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