Election Day 2024, post your political medals!

DCW

It's finally here...commemorate the day with your prized political tokens and leave the commentary to the pundits!

KiwiNumi

Love the proof like fields. It reminds me of one of my british conder tokens.

DCW

@KiwiNumi said:
Love the proof like fields. It reminds me of one of my british conder tokens.

Thanks, and that is just a cellphone shot. This one, if I recall correctly, was in the collection of Dr. Edmund Sullivan.

Walkerguy21D

I have a few, but this is the only one with a photo, as I wanted Bill Js. opinion some years ago:

Mr_Spud

All I have is a few pins

DCW

Love that Teddy Roosevelt "Stand Pat!" button @Mr_Spud

BillJones

Here are a couple of 1892 Grover Cleveland campaign medalets. Cleveland was the first president to win, then be defeated and come back to win again.

This piece was issued in connection with the Columbian Exposition which actually didn't get off the ground until 1893.

This one features Democratic Party presidential heroes of the past. Tiden was not elected president, but many Democrats thought that he was cheated out of the office in 1876,

nencoin

coinkat

@Mr_Spud

I suspect that you know the pins that you posted are reproductions.

Mr_Spud

@coinkat said:
@Mr_Spud

I suspect that you know the pins that you posted are reproductions.

Yes, I know. Abbot made them as a very strange ad for their drugs. By the way, I voted for Placidyl. Pickles were always more fun than Yellow Jackets 😉

SeattleSlammer

Not many posts here today! We are well trained now it appears. 😇

@BillJones nice medalets!

winesteven

I just started a set of the recent U.S. Mint’s Presidential 1 oz. Silver Medals, Matte Finish, because I saw an opportunity within the past two weeks to obtain 13 different ones, all graded MS70 by PCGS, at costs ranging from $50 to $84 each.

Keep in mind the newly raised price of buying these raw directly from the Mint is now $90 each. PCGS pops for those graded MS70 are typically less than 100 each! I recognize over time those pops will grow, since the Mint is still selling raw many of those initially offered several years ago.

Four of my newly acquired medals have TV’s:

Steve

Bodin

Here's a random sampling from my inaugural medals collection

DrDarryl

Class 1 President Eisenhower appreciation medal - October 1960 inscribed reverse.

President Eisenhower awarded/gifted this medal to secret service and local police department personnel that served on his security details to support the republican party nominee (his Vice-President Richard M. Nixon). See the page below. Page is from my book ISBN 9781511786744

Extremely rare half-dollar sized medal (I have only seen one in a collector hand and it's in my collection). My medal was from the General Schulz collection.

coinkat

@Bodin

Thanks for sharing the inaugurals. I have a question about the Wilson inaugural- how many samples were struck? I have never heard or seen one before. It is Whitehead & Hoag right?

ernie11

ernie11

BillJones

Historians generally regard James Buchanan as the worst president in history. This lack of regard has translated into a lack of interest in the campaign tokens his supporters issued for him in 1856.

There is one exception, the Buchanan rebus token. This piece is very scarce, and it is vistually interesting. The image is "Buck - cannon and "Breckenridge."

The reverse features a quote by former president Andrew Jackson when the nullification movement was threatening the Union. "The Union must and shall be preserved" appeared on a number of political pieces before and during the Civil War. The state of the Union was a huge issue during the 1856 presidential campaign. All of three of the major party candidates brought it up.

A Milard Fillmore piece.

John Fremont was the first Republican candidate for president.

Bodin

@coinkat said:
@Bodin

Thanks for sharing the inaugurals. I have a question about the Wilson inaugural- how many samples were struck? I have never heard or seen one before. It is Whitehead & Hoag right?

It is Whitehead & Hoag, yes.
According to Joe Levine(RIP), less than 12 were sent to the inaugural committee for approval, and 6 of those are known to exist today. There are 2 varieties: SAMPLE struck on the obverse and SAMPLE struck on both sides. 1 example is known with "Whitehead & Hoag" struck on the edge.
Thanks for asking

Bodin

@BillJones said:
Historians generally regard James Buchanan as the worst president in history. This lack of regard has translated into a lack of interest in the campaign tokens his supporters issued for him in 1856.

There is one exception, the Buchanan rebus token. This piece is very scarce, and it is vistually interesting. The image is "Buck - cannon and "Breckenridge."

The reverse features a quote by former president Andrew Jackson when the nullification movement was threatening the Union. "The Union must and shall be preserved" appeared on a number of political pieces before and during the Civil War. The state of the Union was a huge issue during the 1856 presidential campaign. All of three of the major party candidates brought it up.

A Milard Fillmore piece.

John Fremont was the first Republican candidate for president.

Always love seeing your political medals Bill.
I think its so interesting that Buchanan, via his campaign medals, was trying to inform the country how to pronounce his name properly (James Buck-cannon), and yet almost no one did back then or does today.
Guess that's what he deserves for his poor presidency.