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Sellers Pictures and actual coin, night and day!
MadMarty
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Here is an expamples of different pictures of the same coin.
Top one is the sellers pictures and the bottom is what the coin really looks like. Personally I'm very happy with the coin!
Just some info on the coin:
GERMANY. AR Medal (33mm, 14.12 g, 12h). Voyage of the Zeppelin to America. Dated 1924. Facing bust of Dr. Hugo Eckener / AMERIKAFAHRT DES LZ 126 (ZR III), The airship LZ 126 flying left, travel log in seven lines below. Cf. Kaiser 451.
The LZ-126 was built by Germany in 1923-1924, and was given to the United States as partial payment of war reparations for World War I. Dr. Hugo Eckener,the director of the Graf Zeppelin airship company, piloted the ship from the factory in Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, New Jersey. The reverse of this medal records the voyage in October of 1924, listing the dates and times of locations passed during the journey. The airship was given to the US Navy and rechristened as the USS Los Angeles (ZR-III). The Los Angeles was the only German-built airship to serve in the United States, and the only US airship to not suffer a catastrophic accident (the US-built airships, USS Shenandoah, USS Akron, and USS Macon, all crashed). It was decommissioned and dismantled in 1939.
Top one is the sellers pictures and the bottom is what the coin really looks like. Personally I'm very happy with the coin!
Just some info on the coin:
GERMANY. AR Medal (33mm, 14.12 g, 12h). Voyage of the Zeppelin to America. Dated 1924. Facing bust of Dr. Hugo Eckener / AMERIKAFAHRT DES LZ 126 (ZR III), The airship LZ 126 flying left, travel log in seven lines below. Cf. Kaiser 451.
The LZ-126 was built by Germany in 1923-1924, and was given to the United States as partial payment of war reparations for World War I. Dr. Hugo Eckener,the director of the Graf Zeppelin airship company, piloted the ship from the factory in Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, New Jersey. The reverse of this medal records the voyage in October of 1924, listing the dates and times of locations passed during the journey. The airship was given to the US Navy and rechristened as the USS Los Angeles (ZR-III). The Los Angeles was the only German-built airship to serve in the United States, and the only US airship to not suffer a catastrophic accident (the US-built airships, USS Shenandoah, USS Akron, and USS Macon, all crashed). It was decommissioned and dismantled in 1939.
It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!
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Awesome coin BTW
Cool coin.
Actually, I'll bet they're scans.
Russ, NCNE
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Russ, NCNE >>
Someone has to!
-Paul
i cool coin for a big zep fan.
Did you use the lampshade technique on your pic? Just curious.,
BTW - nice medal - I like it.
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<< <i>Hey Marty
Did you use the lampshade technique on your pic? Just curious.,
BTW - nice medal - I like it. >>
Nope.
Dennis
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<< <i>You sure buy some weird stuff.
Russ, NCNE >>
He is gonna trade it for a dogtag...
<< <i>What kind of metal was it made of? >>
German Silver
Here is something among all the stuff I could get my hands on back in 1989 or 1990 when there was a little traveling dog and pony show the USSR was putting on to promote their Perestroika in their last gasps. It is a brass pin with red enamel. I took all that I could thinking they could end up being highly collectible in the future. Well, I haven't seen any of them anywhere else since then. They did make others for domestic use, of similar construction, but this was very different. It's not coins, but perhaps some folks on here also do political buttons. Didn't see a forum for that stuff, though there probably should be one.
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<< <i>What kind of metal was it made of? >>
German Silver >>
I would think the Zeppelin would have been made from a lighter metal than silver.
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<< <i>What kind of metal was it made of? >>
German Silver >>
I would think the Zeppelin would have been made from a lighter metal than silver.
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* 333 ---,---1924. Flight of Zeppelin LZ 126 to America. Silver 33mm by Lauer. Bust of Dr. Hugo Eckener almost fully facing/Zeppelin in flight, departure city of Friedrichschfen in background, in exergue is long text giving arrival times at various points. Kaiser-449. Proof, a touch cloudy. $110
http://www.rosenblumcoins.com/35b/worldcoins
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<< <i>Found this BTW.
* 333 ---,---1924. Flight of Zeppelin LZ 126 to America. Silver 33mm by Lauer. Bust of Dr. Hugo Eckener almost fully facing/Zeppelin in flight, departure city of Friedrichschfen in background, in exergue is long text giving arrival times at various points. Kaiser-449. Proof, a touch cloudy. $110
http://www.rosenblumcoins.com/35b/worldcoins >>
Just to be nosey, what did you pay for that bad pic?
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<< <i>Found this BTW.
* 333 ---,---1924. Flight of Zeppelin LZ 126 to America. Silver 33mm by Lauer. Bust of Dr. Hugo Eckener almost fully facing/Zeppelin in flight, departure city of Friedrichschfen in background, in exergue is long text giving arrival times at various points. Kaiser-449. Proof, a touch cloudy. $110
http://www.rosenblumcoins.com/35b/worldcoins >>
Just to be nosey, what did you pay for that bad pic? >>
$60