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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 26756285, member: 101855"]The Buchanan token is struck poorly in the center of the reverse because the relief of the portrait on the obverse was too high. It sucked up on the medal. It's just as well. It's hard to think of anything Buchanan did right when he was president. He was in the pocket of slaveholders. He thought he had the problem solved when he lobbied the Supreme Court for the Dred Scott decision. Among other things it said that the slave holders could take their "property" to any state or territory and continue to enslave them even if that jurisdiction forbid slavery. As the Union began to break up, all he did was twiddle his thumbs, say that it was illegal and do nothing. In the meantime the Southern states were helping themselves to Union guns and armaments. As some you might know, I have an extensive collection of 19th century presidential campaign tokens. Here are a few from Buchanan's 1856 run for president. Here is Buchanan's resume piece. He had the best background of any president, but it was all fluff. [ATTACH=full]1708513[/ATTACH] This is funny. Yea, he was going to "solve the crisis." [ATTACH=full]1708512[/ATTACH] This large piece told he was going to save the Union. [ATTACH=full]1708515[/ATTACH] And here is the most valuable and desirable of all the Buchanan items, the rebis, "James Buck-Cannon." There were not very many of these struck. They were selling for over $2,000 20 to 30 years ago. I sold a white metal one for almost $2,000 to a specialist dealer 30 years ago. This is better because it's in bronze. There are probably less than 15 pieces known of this piece. [ATTACH=full]1708516[/ATTACH] As Bill O'Reilly wrote in is book, Buchanan was one of those presidents you wanted to smack along side of his head once you got to know his record.[/QUOTE]

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