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Just curious...am not familiar with this item...
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  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I believe it's a US mint medal.
    Larry

  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977


    << <i>I believe it's a US mint medal. >>


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  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    After a second look. Mall?
    Hall sounds normal???
    Larry

  • PistareenPistareen Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭
    When I was growing up in the Philadelphia area (ca. 1980s), they had a large old coining press -- perhaps an old silver dollar press -- set up near the gift shop behind glass. You'd pay $1, press a button and, voila!, the specimen of that souvenir medal that you just struck. That bag perhaps indicates that it was sold at the Independence Mall gift shop or something -- it's only a short walk from the modern Mint.

    I suspect there are thousands of them around, but I don't know if they sold them anywhere but actually in Philadelphia.
  • MrSpudMrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭
    Didn't coin world have an article about that medal a little while back? The reverse of the coin has replicas of key date coins for many series on it.
  • MrSpudMrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭
    Why that's a United States Mint Bicentennial Bronze Medal.

    Here it is image
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536
    Independance Mall was the area across the street from Independance Hall including the building they moved the Liberty Bell to during the Bicentennial.
  • TootawlTootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭


    << <i>When I was growing up in the Philadelphia area (ca. 1980s), they had a large old coining press -- perhaps an old silver dollar press -- set up near the gift shop behind glass. You'd pay $1, press a button and, voila!, the specimen of that souvenir medal that you just struck. That bag perhaps indicates that it was sold at the Independence Mall gift shop or something -- it's only a short walk from the modern Mint.

    I suspect there are thousands of them around, but I don't know if they sold them anywhere but actually in Philadelphia. >>



    Since it is in a plastic bag and not in a box, I'd agree that it came from the gift shop at the Philly Mint and not from the Web Site. I got mine at the Philly Mint gift shop. You purchased a planchet (i.e. blank) from the cashier and took it to the coin press. An employee sets the coin into the press and you get to hit the button that makes the magic happen.
    PCGS Currency: HOF 2013, Best Low Ball Set 2009-2014, 2016, 2018. Appreciation Award 2015, Best Showcase 2018, Numerous others.

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