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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3507609, member: 101855&quot;]Now the American medals.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first one is 35 mm. It is listed in the So-Called Dollars book HK-697. It is interesting to note that I bought this piece on 5th grade field trip, in the spring of 1960, to the John Dickenson Mansion which is just outside Dover, Delaware. The price was 50 cents, which was original issue amount. In other words these pieces were still not sold out almost 22 years after they were issued! Today this piece is worth a bit more than 50 cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]930209[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]930210[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There were two other medals that had the same design as this piece only much larger. They were in bronze at an issued price of $2.50 and silver at $7.50. Here is the bronze piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]930211[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]930212[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have never seen nor heard of any examples of the large silver medal. A few years ago, I spent an afternoon with the foremost collector of Delward tokens, medals and script. He told me that he didn&#039;t have one, and he knew of only piece that was in the hands of Delaware family.</p><p><br /></p><p>The year 1938 was not a great one for the economy. The nation was just comming off the second dip in the Great Depression, which happened in 1937. The $7.50 price was a lot of money to spend on a medal. In the mid 1950s many of the people who worked in my father&#039;s holly wreath plant made the minimum wage of $1.00 an hour. Given that withholding and Social Security were taken from people&#039;s wages, that $7.50 medal probably cost the better part of a person&#039;s weekly earnings in 1938.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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