Coin club medal/token info needed - Harrisburg, PA

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 14, 2015 10:28AM

  Never seen one in silver... Check if it's edge marked Sterling?

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• msassin Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭

  September 14, 2015 10:58AM

  
  
  << <i>Never seen one in silver... Check if it's edge marked Sterling? >>
  
  
  
  
  Thanks. Didn't think of that since they were in 2x2s. All but 1 (1974) was marked .999 FS. Strangely enough the 1975 (last year I had) was silver.

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 14, 2015 11:07AM

  I haven't seen one but wasn't saying it didn't exist.
  
  I've been buying a good amount of coin club and coin dealer medals in sliver if I can get them near bullion.
  
  All so far have been marked as such somewhere.

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• CoinZip Posts: 3,253 ✭✭✭

  September 14, 2015 1:21PM

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• Zoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 14, 2015 1:43PM

  It's cool that you have a set of silver ones. There are a number on the bay but they all appear to be brass, wood or pewter.

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• RichieURich Posts: 8,553 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 14, 2015 2:21PM

  Harrisburg Coin Club issued silver and bronze medals for quite a few years I believe 1963 to around the late 1990's or so. The silvers are hallmarked .999 FS on the edge. They also issued gold medals for one year only - 1975 - which was their 25th anniversary. The mintage on the 1975 gold medal was 10 pieces.
  
  Hope this helps.

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• Zoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 14, 2015 2:24PM

  
  
  << <i>Harrisburg Coin Club issued silver and bronze medals for quite a few years I believe 1963 to around the late 1990's or so. The silvers are hallmarked .999 FS on the edge. They also issued gold medals for one year only - 1975 - which was their 25th anniversary. The mintage on the 1975 gold medal was 10 pieces.
  
  Hope this helps. >>
  
  
  
  Great information Rich. Do you know if there are records of annual mintages? And are the whereabouts of any of the gold ones known?
  
  Gold coin club medals seem to be few and far between, for any club.

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• RichieURich Posts: 8,553 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 14, 2015 3:14PM

  I don't know if there are records of mintages, but I do have someone I can check with. Which I will do.
  
  As far as the ten golds, I sold one earlier this year, the only one I have owned, to a club member. I know that a few other club members have some, but I don't know where all of them are.
  
  As you say, there are very few gold coin club medals. Hershey Coin Club made gold medals in 1963 (their first year of medals), 1965, 1967, 1968, and 2009. The 2009 issue was commemorating the 100th anniversary of Milton Hershey School. Mintage was 8 pieces. I do know where all of them are, as I was medals chairman that year. 1963, the first year of issue, had a $35 issue price. 2009 had a $720 issue price.

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