Medal or currency? How about both! Large pictures enclosed.

tmot99

Over the weekend, I happened to post some lousy pictures of a macerated currency medal. I now have better pictures. I was wrong with part of the details though. I thought it was fractional notes, but the coloring is actually from National Currency. I am going to double-post this in the currency forum, but thought those that only look here would be interested too.

There's a sticker on the back that states that this was a souvenir from the Columbian Expo, but I have yet to find any evidence of that.

MadMarty

That is very very cool!!!

coinsarefun

OMG Tom that is beautiful.....I am extreemly jealous!!







Stefanie

clarkbar04

3x cool!!!

cladking

That is cool.


I suppose they were probably painstakingly glued on after the strike but they appear from the picture to almost be struck in.

jonathanb

Columbian Expo or not, that's pretty cool. Now I'm going to go over to the currency forum and see if there's any other info there...

JRocco

That is ubber on the cool scale.
WOW

Quarternut

I concur! Ubbbber !!!

You might be able to find in in the book on Washingtonia...

QN

tmot99

<< <i>I concur! Ubbbber !!! You might be able to find in in the book on Washingtonia... QN >>



As stupid as it sounds, I didn't even think about that. I wonder if Fuld knows anything about it too!

Meltdown

Not to be redundant, but that is very cool. Where did you find it?

tmot99

<< <i>Not to be redundant, but that is very cool. Where did you find it? >>



It actually belongs to my local dealer. He asked me if I knew anything about it given the reference on the sticker on the back to the Columbian Expo. I'm currently trying to do a little more research on it to see if it could possibly be from the Fair. Either way, I may see if I can buy it from him. It came across the counter!