How About This Franklin?
LeeG
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Just wanted to throw this "Change Up" on you guy's!! Ole Ben's been around for a long time throughout American History. Not just in coins, but Medals also. I thought it was 
so I'm sharing some history here. Lee34.0 mm and struck at the US Mint. Awarded to George Parker in 1865 and engraved with his name and date on the back. This text taken from R. W. Julian's book titled, "Medals of the United States Mint":
Prior to 1867, when the rules of distribution were changed, it was common practice to distribute from 100 to 150 Franklin medals each year to boys in the Boston public schools. In September 1867 the companion City Medal (for girls) was abolished and Franklin medals awarded to all. At the same time there was a dramatic tightening of the eligibility rules with the result that, after 1867, strikings were usually between twenty and thirty medals per year. In May, 1879, the mint notified the Boston School Committee, under whose authority the medals were struck, that the reverse die was cracking and suggested a new one. A new reverse was executed, probably by Henry Mitchell, within a short time after that. The Franklin Medals were last struck by the US Mint about 1947.
1865 Benjamin Franklin School Medal in Silver
Not my coin or photo's. Edited for spelling.
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So Ben did have some hair on top of his head..
Herb
btw I'm going to re post this, hehe. Thx
Thank You
SilverDollar
Very, VERY cool!
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etexmike
Hail the gift of memory in this fifty-second state. Who sold me down the river and shafts me while he waits. Outside the gates of Eden, star spangled and so late.
After seeing the half for so long......then I see this medal, it kinda throws me off. Out of the whole medal , I like the banner on the reverse.
Very Cool Lee G
Box of 20