A gazillion (ok, only 70 or so) bronze medals, mostly 1960s, many US Mint strikes
jonathanb
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I just purchased a huge lot of 71 mostly-large, mostly-US Mint bronze medals. The total weight is about 20 pounds (!)
These were generally produced in the 1960s or so, many of them as reproductions of older US Mint medals originally produced in the 1800s. Some of them are original productions of the 1960s. Anything listed with a Julian number is definitely a reproduction, since Julian didn't list anything produced after 1892. Some of them are originals from the 1960s. It should be pretty clear from the subject matter which are which (the Kennedy and Johnson inaugurals are originals, for example).
These have been selling very well on eBay. The catch is that I'm going to have to post 71 separate listings if I want to make the most money. Plus, each buyer is going to take a pretty big hit on the shipping, since the individual medals are pretty heavy -- as much as a half a pound apiece. Also, many of the medals are sealed in individual plastic wrappers, which I would have to cut off in order to get good pictures that show the excellent condition that all of these medals are in.
In addition, I'll include about forty 32mm MACO medals primarily in the Presidents, Statehood, and Signers of the Declaration series, all with the original boxes. No pictures for these, sorry.
So... let's see if I can interest anyone in a super package deal. In exchange for not forcing me to take individual pictures of everything and not forcing me to create 71 separate eBay listings, I will offer the entire group for a round $1,000, shipping included. That's about $14 per medal, and is pretty much the rock-bottom price for any one of these (check past eBay sales). Individual pieces are selling for as much as $60 on good days. I don't think that any of these should be worth $60, which is one of the reasons I don't mind making the offer the way I'm doing it, but I'm just saying the potential is there if you want to try to resell some of them on your own.
I will take requests for individual pieces (not at $14/per, please!), but I'd really prefer to find one person who'd like the whole shebang.
SOLD for all 70+ medals from the 1960s.
Descriptions are for pictures that immediately follow. The descriptions more or less read left-right/top-bottom in the pictures.
(All of these are US Mint medals)
LS-4 (Coast Survey (Bache), 34mm)
LS-14 (John Horn, 44mm)
LS-1 (State Department (Leutze), 71mm)
LS-11 (Captains Creighton, Low, and Stouffer, 82mm)
LS-15 (Metis Shipwreck, 63mm)
The women of South Carolina to Lieut Victor Blue...Santiago de Cuba Campaign 1898 (59mm)
LS-12 (Captains Creighton, Low, and Stouffer, 75mm)
(I think all of these are US Mint medals, although I'm not positive of a couple of them)
Charles Lindbergh (70mm)
PE-26 Commodore Matthew C. Perry (63mm)
Admiral Hyman G. Rickhover (76mm)
Benjamin Franklin (75mm)
Alben W. Barkley (76mm)
PE-36 Cornelius Vanderbilt (76mm)
Robert B. Anderson (75mm)
Dr. Jonas Salk (76mm)
PE-25 Joseph Pancoast M.D. (76mm)
George Washington/Mount Vernon
Robert Hutchings Goddard (70mm)
Robert Hutchings Goddard (70mm)
CM-15 United States Diplomatic Medal (67mm)
(All of these are US Mint medals)
NA-13 Captain Jacob Jones (65mm)
NA-2 Captain Thomas Truxton (57mm)
MI-10 General Nathaniel Greene (57mm)
MI-5 Major Henry Lee (46mm)
MI-8 Lieutenant-Colonel William Washington (47mm)
NA-1 Captain John Paul Jones (57mm)
MI-4 Lieutenant-Colonel Francois Louis Tessiedre DeFleury (47mm)
NA-3 Commodore Edward Preble (64mm)
MI-33 Colonel John Armstrong / Kittanning Destroyed (46mm)
(Most of these are US Mint medals)
IP-43 Rutherford B. Hayes
PR-12 Abraham Lincoln
PR-12 Abraham Lincoln
PE-29 Dr. Frederick Rose / James Buchanan (76mm)
Franklin Roosevelt Memorial
Kennedy and Johnson (non-US Mint)
Dwight D. Eisenhower 2nd Inaugural (unofficial)
Dwight D. Eisenhower 2nd Inaugural (unofficial)
Dwight D. Eisenhower 2nd Inaugural (unofficial)
John F. Kennedy Inaugural (official)
Lyndon Johnson Inaugural (official)
Dwight D. Eisenhower 2nd Inaugural (unofficial)
Dwight D. Eisenhower 2nd Inaugural (unofficial)
George Washington / Peace and Friendship
(None of these are US Mint medals)
Hawaii statehood medal (MACO)
Hawaii statehood medal (MACO)
Hawaii statehood medal (MACO)
Founding of Santa Fe (MACO)
Founding of Santa Fe (MACO)
(None of these are US Mint medals)
(FWIW, this series of medals was discussed recently in this thread.)
Augustus Saint Gaudens
Charles Barber
Victor D. Brenner
Charles Barber
Charles Barber
Uncle Sam Centennial
(None of these are US Mint medals)
Mayflower 1957
Mayflower 1957
Charles Dickens / A Chirstmas Carol
Bloomfield, NJ 150th, 1962
Cervantes / Man of La Mancha
(All of these are US Mint medals, but small. Note sizes.)
PR-32 (Washington/Grant, 19mm)
MT-22 (Commencement of Cabinet, 20mm)
PR-29 (Washington/Jackson, 19mm)
PR-31 (Washington/Lincoln, 19mm)
PR-26 (Washington, 19mm)
PR-43 (Garfield, 25mm)
Calvin Coolidge/Inaugurated (34mm)
CM-2 (Washington/Oath of Allegiance, 31 mm)
Herbert Hoover/Mint of the United States (34mm)
Franklin Roosevelt/In Memoriam (33mm)
Warren G. Harding/United States Mint (33mm)
Harry S. Truman/Inaugurated (33mm)
EVERYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE IS INCLUDED IN THE LOT FOR $SOLD
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If you've read this far, I'll add one more treat for fans of US Mint medals. Julian PE-23, not a 1960s restrike but a 19th century original, in silverplated bronze. These are rare to say the least. The dies are signed by Paquet, so there's no doubt the Mint was involved, but Julian suggests that they might have actually been struck in Bolivia. In any case, good luck finding another, even with a couple of rim dings. This is not included in the group above, but is available separately for $750.
These were generally produced in the 1960s or so, many of them as reproductions of older US Mint medals originally produced in the 1800s. Some of them are original productions of the 1960s. Anything listed with a Julian number is definitely a reproduction, since Julian didn't list anything produced after 1892. Some of them are originals from the 1960s. It should be pretty clear from the subject matter which are which (the Kennedy and Johnson inaugurals are originals, for example).
These have been selling very well on eBay. The catch is that I'm going to have to post 71 separate listings if I want to make the most money. Plus, each buyer is going to take a pretty big hit on the shipping, since the individual medals are pretty heavy -- as much as a half a pound apiece. Also, many of the medals are sealed in individual plastic wrappers, which I would have to cut off in order to get good pictures that show the excellent condition that all of these medals are in.
In addition, I'll include about forty 32mm MACO medals primarily in the Presidents, Statehood, and Signers of the Declaration series, all with the original boxes. No pictures for these, sorry.
So... let's see if I can interest anyone in a super package deal. In exchange for not forcing me to take individual pictures of everything and not forcing me to create 71 separate eBay listings, I will offer the entire group for a round $1,000, shipping included. That's about $14 per medal, and is pretty much the rock-bottom price for any one of these (check past eBay sales). Individual pieces are selling for as much as $60 on good days. I don't think that any of these should be worth $60, which is one of the reasons I don't mind making the offer the way I'm doing it, but I'm just saying the potential is there if you want to try to resell some of them on your own.
I will take requests for individual pieces (not at $14/per, please!), but I'd really prefer to find one person who'd like the whole shebang.
SOLD for all 70+ medals from the 1960s.
Descriptions are for pictures that immediately follow. The descriptions more or less read left-right/top-bottom in the pictures.
(All of these are US Mint medals)
LS-4 (Coast Survey (Bache), 34mm)
LS-14 (John Horn, 44mm)
LS-1 (State Department (Leutze), 71mm)
LS-11 (Captains Creighton, Low, and Stouffer, 82mm)
LS-15 (Metis Shipwreck, 63mm)
The women of South Carolina to Lieut Victor Blue...Santiago de Cuba Campaign 1898 (59mm)
LS-12 (Captains Creighton, Low, and Stouffer, 75mm)
(I think all of these are US Mint medals, although I'm not positive of a couple of them)
Charles Lindbergh (70mm)
PE-26 Commodore Matthew C. Perry (63mm)
Admiral Hyman G. Rickhover (76mm)
Benjamin Franklin (75mm)
Alben W. Barkley (76mm)
PE-36 Cornelius Vanderbilt (76mm)
Robert B. Anderson (75mm)
Dr. Jonas Salk (76mm)
PE-25 Joseph Pancoast M.D. (76mm)
George Washington/Mount Vernon
Robert Hutchings Goddard (70mm)
Robert Hutchings Goddard (70mm)
CM-15 United States Diplomatic Medal (67mm)
(All of these are US Mint medals)
NA-13 Captain Jacob Jones (65mm)
NA-2 Captain Thomas Truxton (57mm)
MI-10 General Nathaniel Greene (57mm)
MI-5 Major Henry Lee (46mm)
MI-8 Lieutenant-Colonel William Washington (47mm)
NA-1 Captain John Paul Jones (57mm)
MI-4 Lieutenant-Colonel Francois Louis Tessiedre DeFleury (47mm)
NA-3 Commodore Edward Preble (64mm)
MI-33 Colonel John Armstrong / Kittanning Destroyed (46mm)
(Most of these are US Mint medals)
IP-43 Rutherford B. Hayes
PR-12 Abraham Lincoln
PR-12 Abraham Lincoln
PE-29 Dr. Frederick Rose / James Buchanan (76mm)
Franklin Roosevelt Memorial
Kennedy and Johnson (non-US Mint)
Dwight D. Eisenhower 2nd Inaugural (unofficial)
Dwight D. Eisenhower 2nd Inaugural (unofficial)
Dwight D. Eisenhower 2nd Inaugural (unofficial)
John F. Kennedy Inaugural (official)
Lyndon Johnson Inaugural (official)
Dwight D. Eisenhower 2nd Inaugural (unofficial)
Dwight D. Eisenhower 2nd Inaugural (unofficial)
George Washington / Peace and Friendship
(None of these are US Mint medals)
Hawaii statehood medal (MACO)
Hawaii statehood medal (MACO)
Hawaii statehood medal (MACO)
Founding of Santa Fe (MACO)
Founding of Santa Fe (MACO)
(None of these are US Mint medals)
(FWIW, this series of medals was discussed recently in this thread.)
Augustus Saint Gaudens
Charles Barber
Victor D. Brenner
Charles Barber
Charles Barber
Uncle Sam Centennial
(None of these are US Mint medals)
Mayflower 1957
Mayflower 1957
Charles Dickens / A Chirstmas Carol
Bloomfield, NJ 150th, 1962
Cervantes / Man of La Mancha
(All of these are US Mint medals, but small. Note sizes.)
PR-32 (Washington/Grant, 19mm)
MT-22 (Commencement of Cabinet, 20mm)
PR-29 (Washington/Jackson, 19mm)
PR-31 (Washington/Lincoln, 19mm)
PR-26 (Washington, 19mm)
PR-43 (Garfield, 25mm)
Calvin Coolidge/Inaugurated (34mm)
CM-2 (Washington/Oath of Allegiance, 31 mm)
Herbert Hoover/Mint of the United States (34mm)
Franklin Roosevelt/In Memoriam (33mm)
Warren G. Harding/United States Mint (33mm)
Harry S. Truman/Inaugurated (33mm)
EVERYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE IS INCLUDED IN THE LOT FOR $SOLD
----------------
If you've read this far, I'll add one more treat for fans of US Mint medals. Julian PE-23, not a 1960s restrike but a 19th century original, in silverplated bronze. These are rare to say the least. The dies are signed by Paquet, so there's no doubt the Mint was involved, but Julian suggests that they might have actually been struck in Bolivia. In any case, good luck finding another, even with a couple of rim dings. This is not included in the group above, but is available separately for $750.
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If you've read this far, I'll add one more treat for fans of US Mint medals. Julian PE-23, not a 1960s restrike but a 19th century original, in silverplated bronze. These are rare to say the least. The dies are signed by Paquet, so there's no doubt the Mint was involved, but Julian suggests that they might have actually been struck in Bolivia. In any case, good luck finding another, even with a couple of rim dings. This is not included in the group above, but is available separately for $750.