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Columbus Day: Non Half Dollar Thread

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
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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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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very impressive.... Remarkably well preserved... The container, the medal and the ticket..... Cheers, RickO

  • U1chicagoU1chicago Posts: 6,700 ✭✭✭✭✭


  • moursundmoursund Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Columbus, anyway...

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  • JeffMTampaJeffMTampa Posts: 3,320 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice medals- were they sold at the Exposition?

    I love them Barber Halves.....
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JeffMTampa said:
    Very nice medals- were they sold at the Exposition?

    No. These were given to the 20,000 or so exhibitors at the exposition. Saint-Gaudens was one of the leading figures of the Columbian Exposition. Charles Barber, who designed the obverse of the Columbian Exposition half, designed the reverse of Saint-Gauden's exhibitor medal after Saint Gauden's original design was rejected--leading to a rocky relationship between Barber and Saint-Gaudens.

    Saint Gauden's rejected design:

    Barber's sterile but ultimately accepted replacement:

    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
  • HalfDimeDudeHalfDimeDude Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭✭✭


    One, of my favorite albums... :)

    "That's why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante"

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭✭✭

    When he left, he had no idea where he was going, when he arrived, he had no idea where he was and he did it all with other peoples money. Hmmmm.

  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,080 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Smudge

    Thomas Jefferson: “I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

  • ZoinsZoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 11, 2021 7:25PM

    1492-1892 Columbus Father, Saviour, Defender Medal - Eglit-88

    Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists
  • Mr_SpudMr_Spud Posts: 6,540 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Mr_Spud

  • micotumicotu Posts: 58 ✭✭

    I definitely would have eaten that chocolate coin.

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