Columbus Day: Non Half Dollar Thread
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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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Very impressive.... Remarkably well preserved... The container, the medal and the ticket..... Cheers, RickO
Nice medal and case.
This one fits here too. Match safe.
Columbus, anyway...
Augustus Saint-Gauden's 1893 Columbian Exposition medal in bronze, right
Toivo Johnson's 1962 US Mint Engraver series medal in .999 silver, left
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Very nice medals- were they sold at the Exposition?
No. These were given to the 20,000 or so exhibitors at the exposition. Saint-Gaudens was one of the leading figures of the Columbian Exposition. Charles Barber, who designed the obverse of the Columbian Exposition half, designed the reverse of Saint-Gauden's exhibitor medal after Saint Gauden's original design was rejected--leading to a rocky relationship between Barber and Saint-Gaudens.
Saint Gauden's rejected design:
Barber's sterile but ultimately accepted replacement:
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One, of my favorite albums...
"That's why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante"
When he left, he had no idea where he was going, when he arrived, he had no idea where he was and he did it all with other peoples money. Hmmmm.
@Smudge
Thomas Jefferson: “I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
1492-1892 Columbus Father, Saviour, Defender Medal - Eglit-88
Mr_Spud
I definitely would have eaten that chocolate coin.