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Toivo Johnson's 6-piece "Coin Designer" medal series.
Struck in the early 1960s in .999 silver by Metal Arts in Rochester, NY to honor famous engravers.
6-7 ounces troy each, totaling well over a kilo.
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  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,160 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting high relief medallions. Any numismatic value attached to them?
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  • chumleychumley Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭
    rochester metal co.....they did a lot of medallions for each state centenial or whichever anniversary they were celebrating........how big are those high relief pieces?
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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Interesting high relief medallions. Any numismatic value attached to them? >>



    They certainly have some cross-collector appeal. They were struck in the 1960s in pretty small quantity. I doubt too many sets survive.
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>rochester metal co.....they did a lot of medallions for each state centenial or whichever anniversary they were celebrating........how big are those high relief pieces? >>



    How thick? They're crazy deep dish. The Gobrecht one has to be close to 1/4 thick. As for diameter: one of the images shows them in relation to a Morgan dollar.
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    Got this from Gecko109, I kept the slabbed eagle, the nice condition walking lib, the two mercs, the quarter, and the 1 gram gold and sold the other stuff to recoup some of the money.

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,777 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Interesting high relief medallions. Any numismatic value attached to them? >>



    There is a thin but definite market for Toivo Johnsom medals because of the numismatic themes.

    TD
    Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • TrustNo1TrustNo1 Posts: 1,359 ✭
    Anyone know much about the Longines Sterling sets that were out in the 70s? I Don't see too many full sets but those medals remind me of them.
  • CiccioCiccio Posts: 1,405 ✭
    Weiss, the medal with the eagle is amazing!

    Just go back from Italy this week and found 3 nice low mintage coins in the mail box!
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,777 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Anyone know much about the Longines Sterling sets that were out in the 70s? I Don't see too many full sets but those medals remind me of them. >>



    All I know about the Longines medals is that we always melted them.
    TD
    Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
  • TrustNo1TrustNo1 Posts: 1,359 ✭


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    << <i>Anyone know much about the Longines Sterling sets that were out in the 70s? I Don't see too many full sets but those medals remind me of them. >>



    All I know about the Longines medals is that we always melted them.
    TD >>

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