[: A 'Spotlight' on my Cathedral Medals :]

speety

Carlwohlforth's post reminded me and encouraged me to finish these. So with the aid of spacemonkey's templates, and a thread styled like his often are, here are my Wiener medals with their new pics. I have larger pics of all of them if anyone is interested in one, let me know.

adamlaneus

My answer is 42. Thanks for the giveaway!!!

coinsarefun

Simply beautiful Speety







Stefanie

CarlWohlforth

Neat! Thanks for posting, they are all very interesting and great looking.

richardshipp

Congrats for a beautiful looking set and thanks for sharing them with us.

LeeG

Congrat's on these. They are all fantastic examples!!!!!!!!!!!

Tvac897

Those are beautiful.

STONE

I think you had the right idea to start collecting these.

speety

<< <i>I think you had the right idea to start collecting these. >>



I also helped a lot of people start there own sets, what was i thinking?!? Now I can't find anymore lmao. JK i'd do it again in a heartbeat!

Thanks for the comments everyone!

SpaceMonkey

very nice... love the presentation!





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ricko

Gorgeous... I will get one - sometime... hard to find though... Cheers, RickO

baddogss

Very nice!

BloodMan

Beautiful Coins!

I love the feeling of depth with these coins.

Flatwoods

Great presentation of some awesome medals Mark.
Congratulations on a great collection.

Garneteye

Outstanding!!!

speety

Flatwoods, i still go back to your post to see the Tournai...i was sooooo close to buying that one myself (and you narrowly beat out 2 other forumites)! Have you been able to pick up any others?

BECOKA

I'm jeolous.

copperfan

So you're the reason I cant seem to find any choice examples........... Why not leave afew for the little guys there bud?

















Simply amazing! When my modest set is done, I hope it makes my eyes pop out of my head like yours does.



Question, will any of the top 3 grade and slab these?

Robb

This thread deserves a ttt. Beautiful medals.

Flatwoods

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ooops just looked at the date

speety

Ummm well i've been blown out on the last 10 or so i've chased After paying in the $100-150 range for the first twelve, looks like the going rate is now about double that for most of them

skibum

very beautiful medals

CarlWohlforth

I still like those very much! The depth is amazing. The few I've seen for sale were priced above my limit so I don't own any yet...

HighRelief

Nice collection of Medals

Fletcher

Those are amazing ... and, imho, terribly under-valued. Do you know the approximate mintages on any of those?

speety

<< <i>Those are amazing ... and, imho, terribly under-valued. Do you know the approximate mintages on any of those? >>



Fletcher, I have not been able to find any mintages, i'd assume in the mid thousands or so with a relatively high survival rate as these were cherished by the chruches and countries depicted. There is but one book on Wiener's cathedral medals and after two years of searching i still have not been able to find a copy! Ben Weiss has by far the most informative and complete collection of medals I have been able to find.

speety

As a side note, Jacques Wiener is often known as the last great medal maker and made each medal from hand-carved steel dies. Sadly his eyesight went before he could finish the (50 part) Cathedral medal series and thus the last couple medals were made with the help of his brother Charles who Jacques helped to train. A total of 41 European cathedral medals in the ~59mm size were issued after a series of 50mm belgian church medals were made with his other brother Leopold who Jacques also helped to train. The later European medals are both larger and more expensive than the belgian medals.

speety

Whoops, double post.

ElKevvo

Those are really nice and thanks for the history lesson.

K

mrearlygold

Very nice!

HTubbs

These "3D" medals always blow me away, thanks for sharing!

jmj3esq

Those things are simply amazing. I am still on a quest to obtain one.

DNADave

VERY nice collection.

speety

Thanks for the words guys... If anyone wants to sell, let me know!

I'm trying to research more about Jacques and hopefully in the future I'll be able to write a decent article. Finding info on this guy is tough though!

Shamika

I love a collection with a theme.

Walkerguy21D

I have a Morgan dollar-sized medal with a very similar style of sharp 3 dimensional fine detail, labeled NOTRE DAME CATHEDRALE DE PARIS, with a different view on each side. But it does not have Wiener's name on it, or anyone else's. It does have FONDEE IV SIECLE under one of the pics. Any idea what this is?

yellowkid

medals.........

dpoole

VERY nice!

speety

It's kinda cool to see the renewed interest. A year ago these were pretty hot but faded when Stack's auction (September 2008 Coin Galleries Sale) brought such huge prices.

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