Teddy Roosevelt Silver Medal

jmski52 · October 11, 2014 12:53PM

pf70collector · October 11, 2014 2:10PM

Only about 15k of the Roosevelt sets were made. I don't think you can get this medal separately without buying the set.

MedalCollector · October 11, 2014 5:59PM

Can't wait for these things to start toning.....

BigA · October 11, 2014 10:28PM

I got a few of those....nice sets....and...is that a milk spot on his temple???

BillJones · October 11, 2014 11:29PM

I bought on these sets and was disappointed with the silver medal because the relief was so low. Later I bought a larger piece from a Stacks' auction that was custom made in silver by the Philadelphia Mint in the '50s or '60s. It is nicer, but you can see from this piece that the design relief was quite low.

For whatever reason these pieces are listed in some references as a 1905 Theodore Roosevelt inaugural medal. There were two TR inaugural models, but in my view this was not one of them. Here are the two official medals.

The "Davison type" designed by Barber and Morgan was issued only in bronze. The mintage was 3,000.

The alternative medal, designed by Augustus St. Gaudens, sculpted by Adolph Weinman and executed by Tiffany & Co. These pieces were cast, not struck. The mintage was 125 in bronze and three in gold.

Here is a silver TR medal that was made sometime in the 1950s or maybe the '60s. A gentleman whose name I think was Elmer Rice had a number of these pieces made at the Philadelphia mint in silver. Normally these pieces were made in "yellow bronze."

jmski52 · October 12, 2014 1:32AM

I bought one of these sets and was disappointed with the silver medal because the relief was so low.

I agree, the relief was too low and the only way to know that was to buy a set.

is that a milk spot on his temple???

I'm sure that it is a milk spot. I hadn't noticed it until I looked at the photo.

Bill Jones, that first bronze is a great depiction of TR!

Treashunt · October 12, 2014 1:36AM

very nice pieces, all.

ricko · October 12, 2014 2:31AM

Nice medals....He is one of my historical heroes...Cheers, RickO

BillJones · October 12, 2014 2:36AM

<< <i>I bought one of these sets and was disappointed with the silver medal because the relief was so low.

I agree, the relief was too low and the only way to know that was to buy a set.

is that a milk spot on his temple???

I'm sure that it is a milk spot. I hadn't noticed it until I looked at the photo.

Bill Jones, that first bronze is a great depiction of TR!

>>

Augustus St. Gaudens didn't think so. He called that design "deadly."

Bodin · October 12, 2014 3:43AM

BILL,
As you know, I too collect the Inaugural Medals. I have been cataloging, with photographs, all of the known TR(Tiffany), Harding, and Coolidge medals.
Of the 16 TR(Tiffany) medals I have photographs of, yours is the nicest! If you don't mind my asking, did you get it in the 2011 or 2014 Stacks auction?

BillJones · October 12, 2014 3:49AM

I bought my St. Gaudens TR inaugural in the 2014 Stacks' sale.

It the best one I have seen too, but I've not seen than many of them. Most of the pieces I have seen had one issue or another (spot, rub, cleaned and recolored, whatever). With this one there are no issues.

Teddy Roosevelt Silver Medal

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