Libertas Americana silver & bronze medals
Knell
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Just received these lot of medals for $303 net paid. These includes silver and bronze for each medals. Libertas Americana. Lafayette, G. Washington. All from Monnaie De Paris. They have a vendor or inventory sticker of 1985, 1989, and 1992 for GW. The thin styrofoam inside the box are crumbling and I will need to remove but some are kinda sticking into the bronze Libertas (only one not on sealed plastic). How to safely remove styrofoam from bronze medal?
Thanks for any advice. 
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I'd suggest Acetone - it will dissolve the foam,
and take away any residue left on the surfaces.
By the way, thanks for the bids and congrats!
I got that set direct from Monnaie De Paris (French Mint)
when we were doing a gold series w/them.
You're the 2nd owner in about 30 years..........
@FredWeinberg
Thanks. I'm happy with the purchased. To be honest I wasn't expecting to win. I put a max amount willing to pay and next morning I saw a message to pay.
I always checked your listings and saved you as my fav vendor.
Thanks again.
Soak the medal in acetone overnight. The residue will dissolve. Then soak it overnight again in fresh acetone to remove the unseen coating.
I'll bet @cardinal would enjoy those, as "might" @coinsarefun. I sure do.
@FredWeinberg
By the way congrats for being voted @ Coin World "Most Influential People in Numismatics"
Super nice purchase
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These aren’t my field of expertise, but I must say...those are spectacular!
They are beautiful medals.... Congratulations on your win. Cheers, RickO
You did well. The only other time I can recall seeing all six pieces offered in one place fairly recently was from the leftovers* from Chet Krause's estate. I auctioned those in three sets of two and they brought more than what you paid for the group.
*Leftovers is a poor description. Chet Krause had virtually every modern yellow-bronze U.S. Mint medal and displayed them openly throughout the Krause Publications building. He also had a very large quantity of Paris Mint medals from the 1960's in their original boxes. These were heavily more modern art and commemorative medals but included a number of modern strikes of classic medals struck at the Mint. KP sponsored numismatic European tours in the mid-1960's & I believe these medals were ordered during those trips. I can picture Chet at the Paris Mint with a list of medals available checking off nearly every box on the order form!
Again, you made a nice purchase (It seems I have to start following Fred's listings).
@FredWeinberg
I still remember when I purchased my first 3 inch diameter 1976 Silver Libertas medal (I have a few of those). I got it on eBay 10 years ago, and I still have the Paris Mint box and the shipping box it arrived in:
@FredWeinberg
@Knell
If these are 30 years old, that means the two Libertas medals were from the 1980's, and decidedly scarce - especially the bronze one.
@cardinal
One of these days I'm going to acquire the 3" Silver Libertas. I have the bronze 3" and a few small silver and bronze.
In fact I just bought another silver version on eBay this morning.
Thanks for the comments.
There is a 3" Silver Libertas on eBay, but the price is far too high for the condition. 500 of those were struck in 1976, so wait until you find a good one. The bronze 3" is rather scarce, and the Brass 3" medal will be difficult to find (only 5 Brass medals were struck, and 3 of those are already in collections).
I'm digging through my boxes of crap...I mean coins. Stuff I haven't looked at in probably a decade. I just found my three Libertas medals. One is silver and the other two are bronze. The odd thing is that they all have "bronze" COAs. At first I thought that this was some kind of weird "white" bronze. But I pulled out the scale and it weighed less than the other two. Dug through old emails and discovered that I'd gotten them new in late 2007, and, yeah, one silver, two bronze.
I'd remembered that I'd bought a medal "a while ago" but didn't realize I'd bought three. I guess that's the fun of pulling stuff out of the closet, rediscovering. Any idea what the composition of the silver one is? It weighs around 64gm, which is about 2 troy ounces.