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keets
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About 3-4 months ago a regular customer stopped in the store and had a small medalet, 18mm Silver with Lincoln on one side and Washington on the other. He left it with me so I could figure out what exactly it was and an approximate value. I knew I needed a King reference but had a hard time finding one. The main Public Library in Toledo had a copy but my local Library wasn't in the same network for a loan. They directed me to another local Library in the right network and I went to get my Library card. Still a nerd at 59!!!
The book arrived after about a week and I think I found the correct King number in about three minutes. Along the way I learned some interesting information about the designer, Anthony C. Paquet(yes, that guy), the medal itself and other stuff. All very nice. I gave the medal back to the customer and we discussed what we had each learned. Afterwards it was discarded from my personal RAM and I think I have the number written down in some notes at home.
Fast forward to this morning. In walks a young couple, referred to us by a mutual friend, who has a hodge-podge of "stuff" left by the wive's father who has died. I sort through it all and in one of the last little plastic containers is a bunch of foreign. She said her dad was in the Merchant Marines and this was from different places he had been to. Sorting through it all I find....................the same Paquet medal. It's a little banged up, nicely toned with rub and rim dings from spending years mixed in with all the other regular coins. I totaled up the whole group and then grabbed the medal between my finger and thumb.
I explained what I knew about it from my earlier encounter, gave them an estimate of number struck and date of issue along with the designer/engraver and his importance in Numismatic History. I then suggested that they buy a holder to protect it and keep it for its importance and as a momento of her father. They left with the medal in an Air-Tite, some money in their pockets and a smile on their faces.
Life is good and coins rock my little corner of the world.
Al H.
The book arrived after about a week and I think I found the correct King number in about three minutes. Along the way I learned some interesting information about the designer, Anthony C. Paquet(yes, that guy), the medal itself and other stuff. All very nice. I gave the medal back to the customer and we discussed what we had each learned. Afterwards it was discarded from my personal RAM and I think I have the number written down in some notes at home.
Fast forward to this morning. In walks a young couple, referred to us by a mutual friend, who has a hodge-podge of "stuff" left by the wive's father who has died. I sort through it all and in one of the last little plastic containers is a bunch of foreign. She said her dad was in the Merchant Marines and this was from different places he had been to. Sorting through it all I find....................the same Paquet medal. It's a little banged up, nicely toned with rub and rim dings from spending years mixed in with all the other regular coins. I totaled up the whole group and then grabbed the medal between my finger and thumb.
I explained what I knew about it from my earlier encounter, gave them an estimate of number struck and date of issue along with the designer/engraver and his importance in Numismatic History. I then suggested that they buy a holder to protect it and keep it for its importance and as a momento of her father. They left with the medal in an Air-Tite, some money in their pockets and a smile on their faces.
Life is good and coins rock my little corner of the world.
Al H.
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I know the medal of which you speak. I have always liked that medal and Paquet's work in general.
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