If you like Exonumia you may enjoy this beaut!!

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• USSID18 Posts: 265 ✭✭✭

  May 17, 2026 2:22PM

  @MWallace really likes these!

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• jonathanb Posts: 4,039 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 17, 2026 3:40PM

  The bronze version sold in 2010, and that's the only sale record I have for that one.

  I have almost a dozen sale records for silver examples in that period

  @CaptHenway recorded a mintage of 75-200 for the silver, 1-8 for the bronze. Those numbers feel reasonable to me.

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• braddick Posts: 25,106 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 17, 2026 3:59PM

  Cool!
  It is a bit unusual to see a bronze scarcer than a silver version within medals.

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,829 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 17, 2026 4:07PM

  @Maywood said:
  It's coming up for auction soon, a Brian Boru Dollar in Silver, HK-390. This design doesn't show for sale very often in any planchet type but it's usually aluminum when found. NGC lists 21 in Silver but I've only seen 2-3. The real prize is the single Bronze example listed by NGC. Just a lovely design. Enjoy.

  Maywood.

  
  
  

  I had one. I think I paid $12 for it, around 1978.

  Numismatist. 54 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. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.

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• Maywood Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 17, 2026 4:14PM

  I actually prefer Bronze medals or "Bronzed" medals over Silver which doesn't tend to tone nicely very often. I also like medals that have a Silver Oxidized finish. I have an Eglit 583 on the desk right now that I'm going to send to PCGS, it's a White Metal planchet with that finish. Over the years I have moved away from buying medals struck in White Metal or Aluminum because I just don't like the appearance and problems that come along with them.

  "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," --- Benjamin Franklin

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• Maywood Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 17, 2026 4:16PM

  Hey @CaptHenway, add two zeroes to that and you'll still be outbid!!

  "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," --- Benjamin Franklin

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• 2windy2fish Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 17, 2026 9:55PM

  Love it!

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• CaptHenway Posts: 33,829 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 17, 2026 10:20PM

  @Maywood said:
  Hey @CaptHenway, add two zeroes to that and you'll still be outbid!!

  Que sera, sera.

  Numismatist. 54 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. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.

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• GaCoinGuy Posts: 2,856 ✭✭✭✭

  May 18, 2026 4:25AM

  I know nothing about these, but that is a cool design!

  
  
  

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• Maywood Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 18, 2026 5:25AM

  Sadly, as in almost all historical figures prior to the 1500's, there is no recorded painting or other true likeness of this most remarkable man. What we are left with is an "artists conception" of what he may have looked like.

  Makes me want to hire someone to paint me before I fade into obscurity.

  "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," --- Benjamin Franklin

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