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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2364596, member: 59677&quot;]That&#039;s nice to hear, but I&#039;ve never really done medals. I own a couple random pickups, such as the Portlandia one from 2015 because I really liked it and I felt guilty not being a PNNA member.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe that there isn&#039;t an &#039;official ANA&#039; medal from the ANA itself, rather it comes from the host coin club or organization - e.g. PNNA did the medals for the Portland show. I didn&#039;t hear about or see anything from this show (usually the host club has a sales booth set up, the DCC booth was more a meet &amp; greet). TNA had a booth also as a meet &amp; greet &amp; join.</p><p><br /></p><p>This year the ANA was selling the 500 specially slabbed ASEs for the 125th anniversary. Free if you join at the 42$ leve, extend your membership for 3 years or contribute $125 (which is sort of unfair to those of us who are already LMs).</p><p><br /></p><p>The pictured piece looks more like a 1oz silver round with the state quarter-like motif on the obverse and a place for engraving on the reverse. I&#039;ve never heard of a catalog of silver rounds, I would have to guess there are 1000s of pieces, most from small producers. A CCF member did a &#039;token&#039; and recently posted the economics of it. For small runs, the die making charge plus the manufacturing costs all for something that just sells a few and only at a small markup from spot = suck. He&#039;s hoping to break even in 10 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt there was a set of SQ design rounds or anything like that (subscribe to the set and receive a free wooden box with your fourth shipment). While the Pennsylvania design was created by John Mercanti (then the Chief Engraver of the United States Mint), other SQ designs are copyright by outside parties and can&#039;t (legally) be copied w/o permission.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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