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Here is a VIP Irish proof halfcrowns, maybe 10 minted for presentation to VIP's and museums
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The final medal:
For a US item, a die trial of the unfinished reverse die for the George G. Meade medal by Anthony C. Paquet, struck by the US Mint for the Union League of Philadelphia (c. 1863):
The final medal:
Virtus Collection - Renaissance and Baroque Medals
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners.
Wax-on-slate model design by Ferdinand de Saint-Urbain for the obverse of a posthumous medal of Pope Alexander VII (c. 1705):
The final medal:
Wow, that's wicked cool.
Benjamin Franklin's cast trial for testing the use of an ornate rim to cover the rim cud on the Libertas Americana medals -- the "Corded Rim" Libertas medal:
uhh wow
Latin American Collection
100 reportedly struck, only two known:
--Severian the Lame
1932 Polish 10 Zlotych Proof. London Mint.
100 reportedly struck, only two known:
Wow!
Love the design and didn't know it existed in proof.
This from an earlier post in 2008.
"The similarity between the Dubosq territorial coins and Longacres designs has been noted by many. I suspect that the experts here already know this particular information but I didn't until recently.
In talking with Rick Snow, he referred me to a article he wrote in 2001 after having had the chance to research Longacre roughly 10 years prior. Here is a excerpt from Longacres diary.
"Gave Mr. Cross the dies (1 pair) with the necessary directions to be made for Dubosq and Co.”
Long acres Ledger Pg 6, June 2001."