I purchased my first ever medal in my numismatic years.

bidask · May 10, 2019 8:53PM

The reverse has the intricacy of a Jacque Wiener cathedral medal.

I’m a former St Louisan and Teddy Roosevelt fan !

thisistheshow · May 10, 2019 8:58PM

Great purchase! Congratulations! Medals certainly are a terrific way to expand our collecting interests.

bidask · May 10, 2019 9:01PM

@thisistheshow said:
Great purchase! Congratulations! Medals certainly are a terrific way to expand our collecting interests.

Thanks !

Hemispherical · May 10, 2019 9:22PM

Love the Weiner cathedral designs. They are fantastic and so is yours. Thanks for the showing @bidask.

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Justacommeman · May 10, 2019 10:34PM

I love medals! I wish I would have started on them earlier.

NICE pick up

mark

lordmarcovan · May 10, 2019 11:46PM

Slippery slope, man. Slippery slope. Once you go Exonumia, you get sucked in to all kinds of tempting stuff, and then you're a goner.

Me, I slid down that slope some time ago. Sweet surrender.

That's a great TR medal. I quite like the design.

Here is one that just landed at Newport Beach yesterday. I dunno if it will straight-grade or not. Cross your fingers for me. I think it might have had an old cleaning, but whether that will be deemed "market acceptable" or not, I don't know. It's a little bit lighter color and shinier in hand, but not terribly so.

In any event, I certainly thought the eye appeal was there, and it was reasonably inexpensive (about 70 bucks after shipping from Germany). Hope they don't "ineligible type" it.

Germany (Nuremberg): silver medal by Daniel Dockler the Younger, 1730; bicentennial of the Augsburg Confession

26 mm, 4.56 g, ex-Künker am Dom.

lordmarcovan · May 10, 2019 11:52PM

PS- of course with So-Called Dollars like that, you're still operating within a known series, and not completely slid down the slope into wild abandon.