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<p>[QUOTE="cadmanco, post: 604730, member: 18454"]With a picture I think I could help you...but without a picture it's sorta tough. Many of the early (pre-1900) mint medals were restruck in the 40's, 50's & 60's. The bronze they were struck from is quite different and quite discernable, once you know what to look for. There are also different sizes of the same medal design. What is the physical size of the medal you have? Again a picture is worth a thousand words. You say it's exactly like the picture in Coin World. Do you have a link to that? Which issue of Coin World? or??</p><p> </p><p>The Mint typically does not provide information on the quantity of medals struck. If it's an older medal, the Mint definitley won't be of any help. many mint medal records have been lost over the last 100+ years. If you have found a source at the mint for medal information, I'd be quite interesting in knowing that for my research and book I recently self published on "National Commemorative Medals of the United States Mint".</p><p> </p><p>If you can provide more info, pictures or links, I think I can help.</p><p> </p><p>:kewl:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cadmanco, post: 604730, member: 18454"]With a picture I think I could help you...but without a picture it's sorta tough. Many of the early (pre-1900) mint medals were restruck in the 40's, 50's & 60's. The bronze they were struck from is quite different and quite discernable, once you know what to look for. There are also different sizes of the same medal design. What is the physical size of the medal you have? Again a picture is worth a thousand words. You say it's exactly like the picture in Coin World. Do you have a link to that? Which issue of Coin World? or?? The Mint typically does not provide information on the quantity of medals struck. If it's an older medal, the Mint definitley won't be of any help. many mint medal records have been lost over the last 100+ years. If you have found a source at the mint for medal information, I'd be quite interesting in knowing that for my research and book I recently self published on "National Commemorative Medals of the United States Mint". If you can provide more info, pictures or links, I think I can help. :kewl:[/QUOTE]
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