Must...not...pursue...SCDs!
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I keep telling myself I'm not getting in to this series. But this one is sure calling me.
Official Medal from the 1898 Trans-Mississippi International Exposition held in Omaha, Nebraska. Struck in the US Mint Exhibit from dies made at the Philadelphia Mint.
A female bust on the obverse and on the reverse a mounted Indian spearing a buffalo. Struck in Silver. 34mm. Mintage: ~25,000 NGC AU55
http://so-calleddollar.com/DollarSite/ForSaleDollars.aspx?category=70&title=HK 268-298
Official Medal from the 1898 Trans-Mississippi International Exposition held in Omaha, Nebraska. Struck in the US Mint Exhibit from dies made at the Philadelphia Mint.
A female bust on the obverse and on the reverse a mounted Indian spearing a buffalo. Struck in Silver. 34mm. Mintage: ~25,000 NGC AU55
http://so-calleddollar.com/DollarSite/ForSaleDollars.aspx?category=70&title=HK 268-298
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame
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- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
Lots of really cool ones out there and some of them are pretty darn rare too. Can still get a lot of bang for your buck with the SCDs I think.
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Hoard the keys.
I knew it would happen.
Off the top of my head these where mint struck and I believe the dies were cut by Charles Barber.
Must.....have.....Medals!!!
(apologies to WheatThins) dude, just go for it and quit fighting, you know you're hooked.
Linky
<< <i>The mintage you have listed of 25,000 is for all metal types as in silver it's rarity R-6. >>
That makes it even better. And my first instinct was that it's a Barber (or Morgan) piece. SCD.com doesn't specify.
And this isn't my piece. I haven't pulled the trigger--yet!
--Severian the Lame
I collected SCD's several years back then decided to sell them. Lately I have been bitten by the bug again.
Picked up a few different ones and somewhat rare for some reasonable prices, so if your into these I think
now is a very good time to pick some up.
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC
Trans_Mississippi stamp - Indian Hunting Buffalo
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Now listen boy, I'm tryin' to teach you sumthin' . . . . that ain't no optical illusion, it only looks like an optical illusion.
My mind reader refuses to charge me....
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<< <i>The reverse is obviously an adaptation of the design of the 4¢ value from the set of stamps issued for the Trans-Mississippi exposition. The design was drawn from a painting by soldier/artist Seth Eastman.
Trans_Mississippi stamp - Indian Hunting Buffalo >>
Actually, I think the reverse is closer to John Mix Stanley's 1845 oil painting "Buffalo Hunt on the Southwestern Prairies" in which the Indian is holding a spear and the angles between the horse and buffalo are closer. The stamp shows an Indian with a bow and arrow chasing a buffalo that is running away from him which is not what the SCD depicts.
It appears there are a lot of paintings of Indians hunting buffalos with bow and arrows and fewer with spears. I'm sure the people behind the medal had a lot of paintings to choose from.
Here's to looking forward to more PCGS slabbed and TrueViewed SCDs.