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Help with a Hawaii / Kamehameha I medal?

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Friends at a local museum found this in their storage. Looks like a Medallic Arts 1960s bronze, but my google-fu failed me.

Any ideas?

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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    tokenprotokenpro Posts: 951 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If the reverse is "King And Founder - Hawaiian King - Pacific Ocean (Map Of Hawaii)" then it is Medcalf & Russell 2M-255, round, bronze, 38mm with a catalog value of $15. it also was struck in silver but there is no info as to mintage or occasion (if any, more probably a tourist item). It's an OK design for a retail medal but it is not up to MACO standards.

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Rather a stern looking dude.... ;) Give that man a Mai Tai.... :D Cheers, Ricko

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,294 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If that does not identify it, ask the museum what it says on the reverse and the edge and the box.

    Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
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    WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Awesome, @tokenpro . They didn't send an image of the reverse. But I'll wager that's it. Thanks!

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,294 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 4, 2020 8:56AM

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    Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
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    Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,431 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A little concerning that there are no engraver or artist initials on the obv-portrait side shown. IMO. I still like it. Peace Roy

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    MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 9,318 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 4, 2020 9:25AM

    That's what I picture our good buddy Comrade Renski looks like.

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    renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thx, but I'm uglier,....and haolier.

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