Interesting WW1 1917 medal w/ same eagle as SLQ
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I stumbled across it on the 'Bay.
Pretty neat medal. I doubt I would pay that much for it, but I kind of like it.
Pretty neat medal. I doubt I would pay that much for it, but I kind of like it.
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I guess it would be sort of like somebody using the Sacagawea dollar's reverse eagle on a token today, or something like that.
Since the US joined WW1 late in 1917, this piece would have to have been made very late in the year, I would think, if it was struck in 1917 at all. Certainly the style is right for a token of that period, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that this was struck circa 1918-20 or thereabouts. Maybe even later, but I wouldn't think too much later.
(Edit/correction: the US declared war on Germany in April of 1917, not "late in 1917", as I thought. But this piece would still date from the latter half of 1917 at the earliest, I'm sure.)
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
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(It was British ornithologist who claimed the eagle was wrong. A similar controversy surfaced in 1907 about the eagle on the new $20 coin, but fewer people ever saw double eagles, so it faded faster than the quarter silliness a decade later.)