Where do you look to price and research medals?

tychojoe

...and find out the number produced, of Jacques Wiener's better cathedral ones, for example? From an online catalog, and posts on the boards, I can tell that a "virtually as struck" condition for Wiener can go reasonably for $300 ($200 on the low side?), and an "extremely fine" for $150 and up. Ebay completed listings show one for $123 that ended a few days ago.

Is there something like a Krause for medals? Ben Weiss has a link for Medal Book Dealers, but it is currently under construction. Weiss and Hedley Betts both have extensive bibliographies - but it is hard for a newb to know where to start there.

On the other hand, nevermind. D. Wayne Johnson has many good answers to my questions.

tychojoe

seven weeks later...

Johnson notes, "Medal literature is...sparse."

Anybody know of any recent additions to the field?

Anybody here working on a volume? Seems like this field is ripe for a big-thinking specialist who can tell the story.

theboz11

Most books that I know of were done in 1986/87. Not much after that. Want to write one, I have a Victoria medals collection that would make great illustration.

Victoria Medals

tychojoe

YOU want to write one, or are you inviting SOMEONE OUT HERE to write one, for which you can provide the illustrations?

Wow, that's an extensive collection and variety of Victoria Medals. Is 90 pretty much all of the known ones? There's more? I like the uniqueness of her early busts, er you know, portraits I mean. I finally picked the Sheffield Hall to bring up - and then there was the famous Una and the Lion (I know, reproduction) I hear so much about - and finally the Buenos Aires. I like the Argentine flag -- used to live in Mendoza. Yep, there's stories to be told in them thar Victoria medals!

Books, 1986/87. That long ago! I'll have to get wait until I can get nearby a public library in the States again. In the meantime, I'm still hoping to compile a short bibliography found from websites so I'll know what to look for.

theboz11

<< <i>Wow, that's an extensive collection and variety of Victoria Medals. Is 90 pretty much all of the known ones? >>



British Historical Medals by L Brown lists 3695 Victoria era medals (1837-1901), not all of them are Victoria portraits though. Many are not listed even in that extensive work. My collection is just the tip of the burg, but it is the RARE/Very Rare tip of that burg. I only have one medal collection that is close to complete, it is one of Soviet Submarine Medal/insigias, that I have over a hundred of the possible 225.

tychojoe

One thing that's cool about that is we get to see all those rarities on one iceberg, I mean in one place, on your site.

Hey, that's a nice collection of great cats. How long have you been collecting?! The Canada 25c Centennial Bobcat really stood out for me.

Have the Soviet Submarine ones been displayed? I wonder what one related to the Kirsk are like.

Aethelred

I love tokens and medals, but they can be very hard to price!

Aegis3

You can try Coin Archives, which has prices realized for a good number of world auction houses. It includes medals, though sometimes it may not be too easy to find what you're looking for.

theboz11

<< <i>One thing that's cool about that is we get to see all those rarities on one iceberg, I mean in one place, on your site.

Hey, that's a nice collection of great cats. How long have you been collecting?! The Canada 25c Centennial Bobcat really stood out for me.

Have the Soviet Submarine ones been displayed? I wonder what one related to the Kirsk are like. >>




Here is a link to the Soviet Submarine medals including all the ones from the Kursk. The Kursk medals are the last ones on the page. Hope you enjoy them. It is a small field and very collectible for the future, because the Russians have imposed a halt to exports of their Past Military medals.
Submarine Medals

And here are some Soviet Diving medals that also have the diving medals of the Kursk
Soviet Union Diving medal awards

Click on each one for a description. They were all just transfered from Yahoo Photos and I have not checked to be sure they got all the descriptions with the transfer.


I misspoke on an earlier thread. The number of Victoria medal in the 2nd volume of BHM starts at number 1756 and goes to 3695. I started my Collecting seriously in the early 80's after I retired from the Navy..