Are these mint medals ?

jfoot13

Can anyone tell me if these are mint medals and if so when were they made. I just purchased a small lot of so called dollars and these were included. I know nothing about these except for the fact the smaller one had wriiten on it washington/lincoln #3 variety $125.00 and the larger one rare $200.00






thanks for any input

Ken

savoyspecial

those were produced over a large span of years, it would be difficult to pinpoint a date but i will say that they look like later editions.........keets or airplanenut might know more...

jonathanb

Yes, those are US Mint medals. They were made "recently", meaning in the last 50 years or so. They can't be dated more precisely. The originals were produced in the 1880s and have very different surfaces and coloring.

jfoot13

That




makes sense as the lot of so called dollars were from the early 60s for the most part .. beautiful shape with many in their original packaging..

johnny9434

some of them are kinda neat looking

BillJones

The pieces in the first post are modern mint medals that were produced probably sometimes in the second part of the 20th century, although it's hard to pinpoint that. They have the "yellow bronze" look, and are not worth very much.

The Lincoln piece that jfoot13 posted is not a mint medal. It is a 1961 creation that combined an original Lincoln die used, in 1861 with a reverse die made in the modern era. I don't know much about the Kansas piece he posted except to say that it was not struck at the U.S. mint to my knowledge.

Here is an example of the Jackson medalet that was shown earlier that was struck probably in the 1830s or '40s. It was issued to celebrate his second inauguration in 1833.