Is this medal really from 1836? Looks like modern crap to me.

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• JRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 22, 2006 11:46AM

  Looks ubber goober to me too....

  Some coins are just plain "Interesting"

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• AuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭

  August 23, 2006 1:02AM

  It's real.

  
  
  My OmniCoin Collection
  My BankNoteBank Collection
  Tom, formerly in Albuquerque, NM.

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• Dentuck Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭

  August 23, 2006 1:29AM

  I wrote an essay on that medal last year. I'll try to hunt it down and post it.

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,781 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 23, 2006 1:48AM

  It is my understanding that these are modern copies sold to tourists in either Prague or Budapest.
  TD

  Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.

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