A very unique and different 1915 Panama Pacific Gold $50 piece.

coinsarefun

Here is something very interesting that I have been searching for many, many years.

This is a fantasy piece as Coca-Cola never produced them.......Beware there are knock off's on the market
of even these pieces!!
They are very crude and one can tell the difference, which I will show and give examples of here soon.

I bought a few of them years back and found out the hard way.......thankfully I was able to return them to the auction house.

Anyways, it really is a beautiful piece being very hefty and large. It is also reeded....My best guess through research makes me think that this is an original with case.
I also think they were produced in 1965 by the Coca-Cola Bottlers Collectors Club that had a 50th Coke anniversary to celebrate they had these struck.

Some say that these were struck in 1915, but the case construction and materials do not match any materials
from the era. Others say that these were struck in the 1970's I disagree but think the cheaper knock off pieces are.
Again I will post some more pictures to support my theory later.

There was a great article February of this year in Coin World that showed the medal and gave some background history
which I have included pictures from that article but suggest it highly as a great read! Also explains the reverse owl.


btw.....if anyone else gas found additional information as to who may have struck these and when, it sure would be appreciated.

Below is the image of my latest and long waited for 1915 Pan Pac fantasy piece and hope you enjoy it.


fron Coin World Feb.2013 online issue

MsMorrisine

Great token.

I wonder what a coca cola collector would pay.

CCC2010

I like this one

Steve27

Nice medal, is it the same size as the $50 gold commemorative?

SaorAlba

So Ike was a Coke addict! Now I will have to read up on how he made millions of American soldiers into Coke addicts.

Broadstruck

I spoke to exonumia dealer Paul Cunningham about these a few years ago at a show as he had a boxed example in his case. These aren't re-strikes as they are all supposed to be promotional novelty pieces struck between the mid 60's to early 70's that Coca Cola gave away at trade shows. Having had a daily token & medal search on Ebay for nearly a decade these are plentiful without the box and with the box I've seen about a half a dozen.

ricko

Interesting...thanks for the history... Cheers, RickO

coinsarefun

Another member told me that According to “A Reference Guide for Collectors of So-called Slugs and Facsimiles” by T. J. Jankovsky (2006),
this slug was issued for the 50th anniversary of the 1915 Coke Convention.

He also mentions a fake commonly found on eBay

Baley

very interesting piece with crossover appeal to coin and coke collectors, thanks for posting.

johnny9434

nice token, i like

Broadstruck

<< <i>Another member told me that According to “A Reference Guide for Collectors of So-called Slugs and Facsimiles” by T. J. Jankovsky (2006),
this slug was issued for the 50th anniversary of the 1915 Coke Convention.

He also mentions a fake commonly found on eBay >>



One of the major auction houses sold one of these in the last few years and the description mentioned that these had been struck for the 1965 golden jubilee which I'm guessing was in California? But there's just too many of these out there to just have been struck for just one event. That's the problem with researching many exonumia items as there's lots of opinions and not enough facts and in most cases you just hit a wall with remaining unanswered questions.

georgiacop50

That's really nice, especially w/box!

northcoin

Here is another Pan-Pac 50 inspired piece from my collection.

This one was made in 1915 and served as a badge for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. I acquired it to accompany my previously acquired Pan-Pac Octagonal.

It is kind of sad to consider that this year (now 2016) was the opening of the expanded Panama Canal and there is no such similar celebration to commemorate the event. (The goal had been to match the expansion's completion to the 100th Anniversary of the Canal's original opening, but labor strikes intervened.) Here is mine: