How likely is this a George Soley piece? Or was there someone else striking Lord's Prayer Medals in the International Exhibition building in 1882?
I picked this up thinking it was a Soley piece since it follows the 1879 pieces which have a very similar prayer style to the 1876 pieces, but this has a different style and even text! This one ends with "deliver us from the evil one" while the others end with "deliver us from evil. Amen".
Here's a 13mm 1876 medalette posted by @NumisOxide. I don't think it's a Soley piece but good to keep track of here. These have been reported in gilt, brass, and copper. They come with a location for a hole, but not all specimens are holed. Benjamin Fauver had an unholed, brass specimen.
Here's SCD HK-69, Soley made a ton of so called dollars, I had no idea he made so many! I bought a couple but I kinda stopped and moved on to collect other tokens and medals by others who didn't make so many!
Here's one I bought years ago from Jeff Shevlin, he's in my coin club in Sacramento, I've had it for years but I finally got it graded. It's actually been posted in this thread years ago, I have a couple more I'll post another day!
Here's another SCD I got awhile back HK-53 and one of those 13mm prayer tokens, not mine and I don't even own one of these yet, but it's a nice one, Theodore Roosevelt. I think this was probably Soley's last prayer token as Roosevelt was President from 1901-1909 and I think Soley died in 1908, again I could be wrong.
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How likely is this a George Soley piece? Or was there someone else striking Lord's Prayer Medals in the International Exhibition building in 1882?
I picked this up thinking it was a Soley piece since it follows the 1879 pieces which have a very similar prayer style to the 1876 pieces, but this has a different style and even text! This one ends with "deliver us from the evil one" while the others end with "deliver us from evil. Amen".
Here's a 13mm 1876 medalette posted by @NumisOxide. I don't think it's a Soley piece but good to keep track of here. These have been reported in gilt, brass, and copper. They come with a location for a hole, but not all specimens are holed. Benjamin Fauver had an unholed, brass specimen.
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1089897/new-addition-1876-liberty-bell-a-century-of-liberty-medalet-zoins-have-you-seen-this-one#latest
Here's another 13mm 1883 German-American Bicentennial piece I ran across. Saving the photos for posterity.
This should be listed as a So-Called Dollar in S&H Vol 2.
Photos courtesy of aclassactnumismaticsandmore.
I picked up this token up around a year ago, found it interesting and I think it's a George Soley but you never know, I've been wrong before!
Here's SCD HK-69, Soley made a ton of so called dollars, I had no idea he made so many! I bought a couple but I kinda stopped and moved on to collect other tokens and medals by others who didn't make so many!
Here's one I bought years ago from Jeff Shevlin, he's in my coin club in Sacramento, I've had it for years but I finally got it graded. It's actually been posted in this thread years ago, I have a couple more I'll post another day!
Here's another SCD I got awhile back HK-53 and one of those 13mm prayer tokens, not mine and I don't even own one of these yet, but it's a nice one, Theodore Roosevelt. I think this was probably Soley's last prayer token as Roosevelt was President from 1901-1909 and I think Soley died in 1908, again I could be wrong.