Statehood Medals

Zoins

Some Franklin Mint medals I came across that our hosts are now slabbing. Will add as they show up.

johnny9434

Theres a good mix of nice stuff in there, I like 👍

CaptHenway

I was at the 1978 ANA in Houston when word spread that 60 Minutes was doing an interview at the Franklin Mint table. Considering their reputation everybody expected it to be a hatchet job, and it was when it ran a few months later. Because of that interview a lot of FM material got melted over the years. I remember buying in a 200 year History of the United States set and burning everything but the discovery of Polio Vaccine one, which I kept for myself.

291fifth

@CaptHenway said:
I was at the 1978 ANA in Houston when word spread that 60 Minutes was doing an interview at the Franklin Mint table. Considering their reputation everybody expected it to be a hatchet job, and it was when it ran a few months later. Because of that interview a lot of FM material got melted over the years. I remember buying in a 200 year History of the United States set and burning everything but the discovery of Polio Vaccine one, which I kept for myself.

Just a little over a year later the Franklin Mint buyers of silver medals could have gotten out with a nice profit. Silver rose to just over $50 an ounce at one point and people were lined up outside of coin shops to sell silver of all kinds.