Frosted vs Unfrosted Wildlife Medals?

chiefbob

After reading the Coin World article, I checked my medals. The Bald Eagle and Teddy Roosevelt were unfrosted. The rest of the series of mine were heavily frosted.

For those of you that ordered these guys, was your eagle frosted or unfrosted?

Bob

melikecoins

Frosted

Glen

beartracks42

My eagle is not frosted like the other three, either.

FrattLaw

I dunno about the medals -- but my flakes are frosted this morning.

Michael

chiefbob

Thanks, Michael. I'm taking a serious, scientific poll on frosted medals and you respond with cereal varieties!

BTW, are those Kellogg's Proof Flakes?


I wonder if there will be a premium on the early, less-frosted varieties? I know they are only medals, but they might be a good eBay item. I could then buy real coins with the proceeds.

Bob

Conder101

<< <i>After reading the Coin World article, I checked my medals. The Bald Eagle and Teddy Roosevelt were unfrosted. >>


If that is true then you really have something because ALL of them are supposed to be frosted. It's just that the early ones are not as heavily frosted as ones produced later. On the other hand the more heavily frosted later pieces are not as finely detailed as the lighter frosted earlier ones. So there was a trade off, details for frost.

chiefbob

Condor,

When I put them side by side, the less-frosted Teddy R. was silvery in color and the other Teddy looked like frosty the snowman! The same holds true for the eagle on the reverse: silvery eagle and snow white eagle. I'll try to take a photo and post it.

Bob

Mercury

I also have a lightly frosted eagle.

Conder101

Forget putting them side by side we know the later ones are more heavily frosted (and having them side by side will bias you opinion about the early medal). Does your early one have a cameo contrast between the devices and the fields? Or are the devices JUST LIKE the fields? It's kind of like comparing a cameo 1960's coin with a deep cam from the 80's or even just a cam. In most cases the 60's cam can't touch the 80's cam, but it is still a cam.

chiefbob

Condor,

I would say that the Eagle medals have a slight contrast (cameo) between the fields and the devices. The devices appear silvery and sharp in detail as mentioned in Coin World. CW also mentioned that the Mint adjusted the laser to produce a more pronounced cameo frosting as production went on.

What I'm wondering is this: are the less-frosty Eagles scarcer than the frosty variety, as the Mint technicians got used to the laser-induced procedure. Indeed, the collector who got a replacement for his less-frosty coin received a full cameo Eagle from the Mint.

Probably doesn't mean much as we are talking about medals, not coins. However, they are part of an interesting experiment/trial for producing cameo coins later on. The extremely small mintage figures don't hurt them either!

Bob

anoldgoat

The only way I can really compair is by looking at Roosivelt on the eagle and Roosivelt on the others. Roosivelt is not cameo on the eagle and is very cameo on the rest. The problem with looking at the eagle alone is that the angles cause a a refracting effect. IMO the eagle is NOT cameo/lasered.

Mike