Want to buy holder for Bronze medal..

hrlaser

Hi..

I have a Bronze medal, like this one::

eBay listing

I don't have the original box and paperwork, just the medal..

It is exactly 2 1/4", or 55mm in diameter, and rather high-relief on the obverse.. I can't measure its thickness exactly, but the human figure on the obverse is raised above the surface of the medal, so by my measurement, it looks to be about five mm thick at its thickest point..

It's just a squinch too wide in diameter to fit in one of those oversized flips that PCGS and the other guys use for submissions.. I have some Mylar flips that size, and the medal simply won't fit into one without tearing the side of the flip apart..

I've been searching eBay, and coin accessory suppliers on the Web, on and off, for a few days, to no avail..

I'm a collector, not a dealer, so I only need ONE holder for this medal..

I don't care if the holder is square, or rectangular, or round, or snap-together, or like Capital Plastics multi-layer Lucite, with clear, plastic screws and posts.. (I emailed them and told them bascially what I'm posting here, but haven't heard back from them yet)..

I just want a holder that doesn't cost a fortune, and will come as close as possible to exactly fitting this Medal, so it doesn't slop around inside the holder.. but the holder has to snap or screw together tightly, to correctly fit this Medal..

Are there any coin supply dealers here who sell any brand or style of hard holder that would exactly fit this medal?.. it's currently in an envelope, and I'd rather have it in a sealed, plastic holder, so I can look at it without having to touch its surfaces..

If so, please point me to it on your Web site, if you have one, or send me a private message with a description of what kind of holder you have that would *correctly* fit this medal, and its price, including shipping, to So. Calif..

Thanks..

WaterSport

Try Here:
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Air Tite Holders

hrlaser

Thanks.. checking.. I also requested a catalog..

Goldbully

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Harv, long time no hear!!!

hrlaser

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Harv, long time no hear!!! >>



I've been over there -->

and over there <--

Money's been very tight for me, so the last thing I bought from Der Mint, was the 2010 Hot Springs (SP) Collector version bathtub stopper.. it's obviously an SP69, so I'm not going to bother having it slabbed.. didn't buy, and don't plan to buy any of the other five-ouncers.. I just wanted one, just to have one.. so I figured I'd go for the first one.. typical "hot product" ordering ordeal on the Mint's Web site, that took two Browsers at the same time, and almost two hours..

I also grabbed a few of the 2011 Army Unc. halves off eBay, before the Mintage figure got out, and the prices shot up.. I have two raws in OGP, and an NGC MS69 Early Releases.. if I had only known it'd become the Key to Modern halves, I would've bought a pile of them at $15.95 each, early last year.. but who knew?.. no one knew..



Meanwhile, I"m watching my UHR skyrocket in value.. THAT was a painful purchase that turned into a pretty decent investment.. raws have more than doubled in value..

I need to get it slabbed, because I'm 99.99% sure it's an MS70, and I've "made" 70s out of raws before, so I think I know a 70 when I see one.. but I haven't been able to compare it in-hand to a slabbed PL, so I'm aching to know if it's a PL or not, and I simply can't tell, even from the best photographs of PL and non-PL that I've found..

The 1933 Chicago Century of Progress Medal is something of sentimental value to me.. my late Dad worked at that World's Fair, as a ticket taker, and tour guide, when he was only 19 years old.. he saved a LOT of employee training material, sample tickets, and all kinds of other stuff.. and I found all his ID cards and gorgeous uniform badge amongst his stuff, but that was the Depression, and he didn't buy any souvenirs that I've been able to find, so I nabbed the medal off eBay for under $30.00 a few years ago, and I just want a nice, but inexpensive holder for it..

Dad was born in Chicago in 1914, and it's always been a fantasy of mine that if his Parents had only bought their new baby a fifty cent roll of shiny, new 1914-D cents, and he'd saved it his whole life, I would've inherited it, and could retire rather comfortably, by selling a couple of them a year.. but he probably would've spent them on bubble gum as a child.. he didn't own a single one, so I bought a lowly VG08 in a SEGS slab some years ago for $80.00, and crossed it to PCGS VG08 in 2009.. now it's worth three times what I paid for it..

Flatwoods

I second the air-tite holders. They should have one that fits.
If you get one with the insert, that is off a mm or two, you can make it fit. Trust me.

Two things.

Unless they have improved the website, it's better to call and ask for what you want.
They have alot of sizes that didn't used to show on the website. Not sure about now.

The shipping is going to kill you on one holder.

hrlaser

I would prefer not to be killed.. but I only have one 55mm medal, and only need one holder.. there are no local coin shops around my locale any more, so I don't have much choice but to order one, assuming AirTite has one that's a perfect fit.. there's no huge rush.. I've had the Medal a few years.. but I'd rather have it in a nice, tight-fitting holder, than in an envelope..

I saw two of them in NGC MS65 sell on TeleTrade for $65.00 each a year or two ago..

A couple of weeks ago, someone on eBay got over $250.00 for an NGC MS65.. I couldn't believe it..

The same design Medal was made in three different sizes, and the one I have, the 55mm one, was the biggest size.. I can't imagine it was more than a buck or two at the fair, eighty years ago.. but again, that was during the Depression, when men stood in bread lines, and unemployment was 120%, so people didn't throw a lot of money at souvenirs, when they needed it for more important things, like FOOD..

MadMarty

Send a PM to TMOT99, he can make custom holders for any size medals!!

coindeuce

Airtite products may not acommodate your medal if it has the high relief that I expect it would have. Try asking the distributor about the depth of their capsules before wasting time and money on something that is too shallow. You might want to check Lindner capsules. They have a line that is more focused on such medals. I've owned that particular size and issue of C.O.P.E. medal, and it is quite thick. tmot99 makes nice holders, but the cost may exceed the value of the medal.

hrlaser

MadMarty - Thanks.. pm sent..

coindeuce - Thanks for your input.. if you owned the same medal, did you have it in some kind of third party holder, or, how did you store / display it?..
You're right.. I don't want to pay more for a holder than the medal is worth.. it's not an MS65 Unc.. I've toyed with the idea of sending it to NCS for conservation, and then it'd end up in an NGC slab, like the ones I've seen on TeleTrade and eBay.. but that would probably also cost more than it's worth.. I should've just bid on one of the ones in NGC MS65 slabs that ended up selling for $65.00 on TeleTrade, but hindsight is always 20/20.. then again, those could've been the 1" version.. none of the descriptions of the ones I saw in NGC MS65 slabs said which size they were, and they made this medal in three sizes, 1", 2 1/4", and a medium size that I don't know what it was..

garrynot

Thats a great story! My dad was 10 when he attended that World's Fair. He managed to get a couple elongated coins out of it, so I have managed to put together a sizable collection of elongated coins from that Fair just in memory of him. He collected coins casually but never managed to get a roll of '14-D's. Wow, what a prize that would have become.

hrlaser

Years ago, an old-timer poster on Rec.collecting.coins on Usenet (which used to be where I spent a lot of time, before it was invaded by spammers, and all the old-timers ran away).. sent me a gift.. a birth year coin.. a 1949-D NGC MS67 Roosevelt dime, with a gorgeous full-spectrum rainbow inside the rim, in front of FDR's face..

Three years ago, I submitted it to PCGS for cross-over service.. they upgraded it to MS67FB (it was in an old NGC "fat" slab, and they probably didn't even have their "Full Torch" designation when they originally slabbed it)..

The PCGS population of 1949-D MS67FB dimes is somewhere around sixty.. only three higher.. if they had just upgraded it one point to MS68, it'd be a $5000.00 coin, but no such luck.. still, I think it's worth more than current Price Guide / retail, because of the rainbow.. at any rate, I have no plans to sell it, but I've pondered the idea of putting it on eBay with a very high hidden reserve that no one would hit, and some really clear, close-up photos, just to see how high it'd get bid up to.. at any rate, it looks a lot nicer in the PCGS slab, because dimes are very thin coins, and in those old, fat NGC holders, it was sunk down into that thick, white plastic insert, and very hard to photograph..

I submitted a bunch of NGC coins to PCGS for cross-over, and every single one crossed at the same grade, or higher.. make of that what you will..

Kinda got off the track there.. but I collect stuff from my late Dad's birth year, 1914, and mine, 1949.. too bad there was no US Proof Set in 1949.. there was a Mint Set, but they go for about six or seven hundred bucks.. outta my budget.. way out..

coinkat

Keep in mind that this medal was issued in 3 sizes-

hrlaser

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Scroll up a bit.. I mentioned that.. mine is the 2 1/4" (55mm) diameter version, which was, as far as I know, the biggest of the three sizes of the medal.. the smallest was 1" in diameter.. and I can't remember what the middle one was..