Good sources for Jefferson Indian Peace Medal Replicas?

GritsMan

Hey Everyone,

I may be interested in trying to obtain about 20 of the Mint's small-size Jefferson Indian Peace Medal replicas, and am wondering if there might be any good dealers or other sources that may carry this in larger quantities and at prices close to issue price? I see a few on eBay, but don't really know anything about the collectability of these, or their availability now that they are no longer available from the Mint.

Thank you!

Sneed

BillJones

I think that you are going to have a hard time finding these mainly because of a lack of interest. I would think that most of the pieces extant would be in the Lewis and Clark coin sets that contained the commemorative silver dollar. That is a nice looking set, and I for one would never break my set up for any reason. In addition I think that the set as a whole is worth more than the parts.

You might do better if you were to look for the "yellow bronze" Jefferson medals that are three inches in diameter. The mint sold those for many years. The trouble is they now sell for around $40 apiece, which more than you probably want to pay, and they big and heavy. There were also the presidential miniature medals that the mint sold with younger collectors in mind years ago. Once more these are sort of like "junk box" items that are not worth enough money for a dealer to go out of his way to stock them.

GritsMan

Thank you for the reply, Bill. I feared this might be the case, but thought maybe someone carried large stocks--the APMEX of medals or something like that

Dupreman

I would contact the US Mint gift shop. They have sold them for many years -and probably have extras. Last price I saw was $3.50, but the current medals of this size sell for about $6.00.

GritsMan

Good suggestion! Thanks!