Check out my new Indiana Medal!
GMan
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High relief medal authorized in 1976 by the Indiana American Revolution Bicentennial Commission to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the American revolution. I know it's not a coin, but I wanted to share.
I really love this thing and I bought it for melt too!
I think these Medallic Art Company medals are just fantastic. Any other Hoosiers like this one? Even if you're not from the great state of Larry Bird, you can like it too.
I really love this thing and I bought it for melt too!
I think these Medallic Art Company medals are just fantastic. Any other Hoosiers like this one? Even if you're not from the great state of Larry Bird, you can like it too.
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i've had a few of those with that reverse but not one with that high relief obverse, very cool
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<< <i>That's a nice design for as recent as it is. But I don't think that guy's going to have much luck chasing the bison with an axe. >>
Au contraire. Look closely. He's a master bison trapper. The tree is one stroke from being felled. He waits for an unsuspecting bison to wander by, he spooks it into running into the fall zone. Wham! Tree falls on bison.
You can still see the tree felled from the last bison kill. This guy is a master, don't underestimate what he can do.
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<< <i>That's a nice design for as recent as it is. But I don't think that guy's going to have much luck chasing the bison with an axe. >>
Au contraire. Look closely. He's a master bison trapper. The tree is one stroke from being felled. He waits for an unsuspecting bison to wander by, he spooks it into running into the fall zone. Wham! Tree falls on bison.
You can still see the tree felled from the last bison kill. This guy is a master, don't underestimate what he can do. >>
LOL
--Severian the Lame
<< <i>I bought one of those once without checking the edge. Turns out there are silver-plated bronze versions also. Oops! >>
I wasn't aware of this. It does come in bronze though.
It probably was made in gold and has a 3" version in silver as well.
This medal is not extremely common even in bronze. It's tough in silver.
who lived in Culver, Indiana. He was a good friend and after his death the widow
give me the original plaster mold for the reverse of this medal.
The 3" medal was struck in silver though I have not heard of a gold. Each bank
in Indiana was given an allotment of two pieces to sell and I was able to get mine
through a small country bank, the large banks having sold theirs quickly. The
price was $25. (When the bank president saw the 3" medal he promptly bought
the other one for himself!)
I do not recall silver-plated bronze medals being sold and perhaps this was done
privately.
The State seal on the reverse was probably designed by William Henry Harrison
when he was the territorial governor in the early 1800s.