The Baltimore City Mint???

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• Coqui Posts: 86

  January 29, 2003 10:39AM

  I have never heard of such a mint, what desing does the medal shows?

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• MWallace Posts: 4,359 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2003 10:44AM

  I had never heard of them either. Here is an eBay lot that recently closed with three Baltimore City Mint medals. I bought the 1985 medal from the winning bidder.
  LINK

  http://www.SmallDollars.com

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• Coqui Posts: 86

  January 29, 2003 10:53AM

  Are they genuine or replicas, you know reproductions,. From the pics they look like replicas.

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• MWallace Posts: 4,359 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2003 11:04AM

  Replicas.

  http://www.SmallDollars.com

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• Draco Posts: 512 ✭

  January 29, 2003 1:14PM

  I think that mint was located right next to the crack house on Fayette street.

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• Zoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2020 3:25PM edited October 4, 2020 3:26PM

  bump

  This is Robert (Bob) Maxey's company. Bob was active issuing medals from 1966 - 1991.

  He listed many ads in the Maryland TAMS Journal which can be found on the NNP.

  • NNP: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/searchwithterms?searchterm=baltimore city mint
  • Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/coins/comments/2nftko/can_anyone_identify_this_coin_i_found_in_an_old/

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• ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2020 6:41PM

  

  Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.

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• MWallace Posts: 4,359 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2020 7:12PM

  The medal I was referring to in the original post is at the bottom of this page:

  smalldollars.com/dollar/page04.html

  http://www.SmallDollars.com

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• chesterb Posts: 962 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2020 8:34PM

  jiminy cristmas

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• Zoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2020 8:52PM edited October 5, 2020 8:26AM

  @ms70 said:
  

  Threads need to be resurrected with answers because they keep showing up on Google searches.

  One approach is to finally answer the question.

  Another approach is to have older questions not show up on Google, which I like less.

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• Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2020 8:53PM

  I have not.

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 5, 2020 5:06AM

  @MWallace.... Thanks for the link... and that is a very attractive medal. I like that design. Cheers, RickO

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,895 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 5, 2020 5:46AM

  I'm a life ,member of Baltimore Coin Club. Bob was also a member and I remember him well. He died several years ago. He would design his medals on paper and then contract out the actual production of the medals and then he would market them. Not sure which company actually manufactured them.

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• Zoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 5, 2020 8:06AM

  @PerryHall said:
  I'm a life ,member of Baltimore Coin Club. Bob was also a member and I remember him well. He died several years ago. He would design his medals on paper and then contract out the actual production of the medals and then he would market them. Not sure which company actually manufactured them.

  That's great to know. I wonder if any of his sketches are still available. It would be great to find out more about how he made these and who he worked with.

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• JesseKraft Posts: 414 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 5, 2020 9:07AM

  Here is a History of the Baltimore City Mint, presumably written by Maxey himself. It seems like he may have been active as a coin collector as early as the 1960s, but didn't get into this venture until 1981, and didn't register the name until '83.

  Jesse C. Kraft, Ph.D.
  Resolute Americana Curator of American Numismatics
  American Numismatic Society
  New York City

  

  Member of the American Numismatic Association (ANA), British Numismatic Society (BNS), New York Numismatic Club (NYNC), Early American Copper (EAC), the Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C4), U.S. Mexican Numismatic Association (USMNA), Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC), Token and Medal Society (TAMS), and life member of the Atlantic County Numismatic Society (ACNS).
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