Pan American Expo Frying Pan Medal 🌞
Mr_Spud
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I found an old box of raw coins / medals / tokens today that I haven’t seen in over 10 years. I totally forgot many of the things in it. This was one of them, the round part is the size of a Lincoln cent. You think any of the grading companies would slab it 🌞
And here’s another Pan American medal I finally got around to photographing last week. The box I found was when I took a bunch of slabbed coins I photographed back to the bank safety deposit box today. The box with the frying Pan medal in it was in the very back of the large safe deposit box.
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Does that even count as a "medal" or "token"? It's a souvenir of the expo, certainly, but there are numerous souvenirs from spoons to ashtrays to thimbles to frying pans.
It appears to be a stick pin that's missing the pin
https://images.app.goo.gl/LByFgv3XQhn2mjE18
WTF is that supposed to be in the frying pan???
Not sure if anyone will slab it but that's a great piece @Mr_Spud!
@amwldcoin....
That is a 'full horn' buffalo...... 
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It's a Buffalo head. The Expo was in Buffalo NY
You think any of the grading companies would slab it?
your best bet(s) wo0uld be ICG and NGC, those two will slab almost anything.
Very cool!
I'll take 2 eggs scrambled please!
who was it, maybe the PennyLady, that posted images of Lincoln Cents that had been made into cookware??
No mater how hard I tried. I just couldn't accept that as a Buffalo. That's what I figured it was supposed to be. Perhaps it was modeled after 1 left behind after Buffalo hunters got it. It's head would be deranged from the removal of it's tongue.
Thanks for finding that, makes sense
As for the buffalo in the frying pan, it’s actually not that far off 🌞
Mr_Spud
Yeah, this would fit right in with her teapots that were made out of cents by prisoners
Mr_Spud
Not a "medal", just a miniature commemorative frying pan.
Probably too big for a doll house, so maybe just souvenir kitsch.
Lots of companies were showing off their wares and expertise so maybe a maker of cast iron made this as a giveaway or novelty.
ICG and ANACS maybe but not NGC. Not worth slabbing anyway IMO as it is missing the stickpin and the cost to slab it exceeds its value.
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Mr._Spud, that frying pan medal is COOL! It's always fun to go through stuff that's been laying around and forgotten about. Never know what you will find. I like that medal.
You’re probably right, but it would look cool in a slab 🌞
Mr_Spud
I just love that Pan Am Expo medal.
Everytime I see one, my gut tells me to start a collection.
Just spent an hour on ebay looking at various exposition medals.
Anyone know of books that encompass Exposition collectibles etc...
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A lot of them are in the So-called dollar book, assuming you mean the NGC 64 medal I posted the picture of. Here’s a link to the book on the So-called dollar website http://www.so-calleddollar.com/books/ and there’s tons of info on the site itself too
Mr_Spud
There is one for the Columbian Expo. That expo had a huge assortment of amazing collectibles. They are coming down in price as fewer and fewer people collect them. My favorite is a sewing kit. I'll have to post photos of it.
https://www.amazon.com/Columbian-Worlds-collectibles-Chicago-1892-1893/dp/0870691570
The embossed frying pan is one of the most commonly encountered Pan-American Exposition collectibles; it comes in quite a number of size and finish varieties. There is a similar (and more elusive) item that has a 1901 Indian cent encased in the bottom of the pan (courtesy of Heritage).
Tho I don't collect spoons (I will get the frying pan one day) I do have a small collection of Pan-American items (my avatar is one.) The enameling on this one is so colorful and well done I just couldn't pass it up.
Just passed on a Charleston Interstate West Indies Exposition Medal that had verdigris.
It was $90 and seemingly below value... figured it could be conserved but images were bad.
I will wait and pay up for a decent example.
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The handle says "I'm it." I wonder what that means?