Did anyone read the article in CW about Bicentennial Medals?

Longacre

In one of the recent issues of CW, there was an article on Bicentennial Medals. I thought it was pretty interesting. Does anyone here collect these? The article implied that there are a lot more varieties out there than have been recorded, because many many towns and cities produced their own medals to commemorate the event. What do people think?

kahokia

I'm a sucker for bicentennial medals. I often buy duplicates when they're cheap, then use those for July 4th give-aways and classroom prizes. When it comes time to get rid of them, I'll probably have to pay someone to haul them off. Still, they're pretty neat.

cladking

The number of these is just staggering. Many of them are exceedinly common but there
must be in the neighborhood of 10,000 different issues that can be included here. There
are a lot that people just don't think of because they appeared almost everywhere. Even
the US mint got in on it with special tokens (32 mm bronze tokens) for their souvenir mint
sets. The number of Patrick Mint tokens alone is huge and most of these had mintages of
1,000. Even some of the low mintage issues have had very high attrition so there will be
some interesting rarities if half a century as well as a few issues that are completely lost.