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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4534644, member: 101855"]<i>I went to the trouble to do this exhibit, which might never be shown, so I'm going finish this out with a few of my favorite pieces. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Herbert Hoover was not a good president, but he was a great man in other ways. He led to effort to feed Europe after World War I, and he was an outstanding engineer. The technical manuels he wrote were widely used until the mid 1960s. Here is his medal, which has some interesting symbolism. </i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1122803[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1122804[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Designer Henry K. Bush-Brown</p><p><br /></p><p>Diameter 70 mm</p><p><br /></p><p>Mintages 2 in gold, 1,012 in bronze</p><p><br /></p><p>Notes: Herbert Hoover banned many of the usual inaugural events such as the ball and a military parade, but he did allow a modest issue of inaugural medals to go forward. For that reason, this medal is collectable although it is not as inexpensive as the mintage of over 1,000 pieces might indicate. Designer Bush-Brown depicted aspects of Hoover’s professional life on the lower portion of the reverse. Herbert Hoover was a great mining engineer, and some of the tools of his trade are shown in that area.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>A Hoover - Curtis Jugate</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1122809[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>It is interesting to note that Hoover's vice president, Charles Curtis, was half Native-American.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4534644, member: 101855"][I]I went to the trouble to do this exhibit, which might never be shown, so I'm going finish this out with a few of my favorite pieces. Herbert Hoover was not a good president, but he was a great man in other ways. He led to effort to feed Europe after World War I, and he was an outstanding engineer. The technical manuels he wrote were widely used until the mid 1960s. Here is his medal, which has some interesting symbolism. [/I] [ATTACH=full]1122803[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1122804[/ATTACH] Designer Henry K. Bush-Brown Diameter 70 mm Mintages 2 in gold, 1,012 in bronze Notes: Herbert Hoover banned many of the usual inaugural events such as the ball and a military parade, but he did allow a modest issue of inaugural medals to go forward. For that reason, this medal is collectable although it is not as inexpensive as the mintage of over 1,000 pieces might indicate. Designer Bush-Brown depicted aspects of Hoover’s professional life on the lower portion of the reverse. Herbert Hoover was a great mining engineer, and some of the tools of his trade are shown in that area. [I]A Hoover - Curtis Jugate[/I] [ATTACH=full]1122809[/ATTACH] [I]It is interesting to note that Hoover's vice president, Charles Curtis, was half Native-American.[/I][/QUOTE]
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