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Keets and Exonumia Lovers: Here's a Lovely Medal for you!

braddickbraddick Posts: 24,169 ✭✭✭✭✭
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NGC Bound...

I'm not real pleased he's handling it with his fingers... but it sure looks GEM to me.

I love the design!

Opinions?

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  • OuthaulOuthaul Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WOW! Nice score, Pat!

    When will it be mine?


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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
    Nice , Very Very Nice ! image
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  • golddustingolddustin Posts: 838 ✭✭
    Very nice find - I'll have to start checking out that category more often!image
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  • LickThoseStampsLickThoseStamps Posts: 1,028 ✭
    Was the "very rare bare breast" the deciding factor?image
  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    on the non fatman scale of coolness, ill go nuclear on that baby!

    great pickup patimage
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  • 1946Hamm1946Hamm Posts: 783 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice pickup. I snagged one a couple years ago. I have only seen a handful since early in 2004.
    These, like coins are rising in price more and more. Seems like more collectors are paying more attention to these old bronzes than in the past.
    Have a good day, Gary
  • AndyNC2005AndyNC2005 Posts: 171
    Very, very nice coin. I must also confess that I looked at the reverse as well.
  • DabigkahunaDabigkahuna Posts: 3,419
    Pat,

    Nice score! Great price to.

    I think I asked NGC and PCGS about slabbing mine but it was to large. The bigest they could do is 52mm, if I remember right? These pickup a wonderful red/brown patina.


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    Larry
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  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,169 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Larry,
    I could have sworn I've seen one of these in an NGC slab before? Maybe not. . . thought I did though.
    Either way.

    Wouldn't it be cool though if NGC could holder this in their oversized multi-holder!

    That would be wild.
  • DabigkahunaDabigkahuna Posts: 3,419
    Pat,

    It never hurts to try. The multi-holders were still new last time I checked about this one and another large medal that I wanted holdered. I kinda think it's a case of who you talk to?


    Here is a discription from Heritage for one.

    "1876 Centennial Expositional Medal MS64 Prooflike Uncertified. Julian CM-11. Bronze, 57mm. Obverse, Liberty honors Industry and Art with wreaths. Reverse, Liberty with sword beneath 13 stars in a glory. Julian (1977) states that about 7,000 large bronze examples were struck and offered for $3 each; many were presumably purchased at the Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia in 1876. A beautiful chocolate-brown piece, well struck and smooth with only trivial contact and carbon.
    From The Henry R. Luhrs Collection."


    Larry
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