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deansmint · February 25, 2008 3:13AM

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BECOKA · February 25, 2008 3:17AM

You might want to do an acetone dip to make sure those spots on the obverse of the first medal don't get any bigger.

Otherwise they are very beautiful medals. Sorry I don't follow these enough to know about the rarity of the other metals for this medal.

tmot99 · February 25, 2008 3:25AM

Those look great. I've seen these two much more frequently than the silver or white metal.

I'd suggest Blue Ribbon on the bronze piece followed by a rinse in acetone. That will help.

deansmint · February 25, 2008 3:29AM

Thank you kindly for the suggestion, I would be hessitant to mess with these as they look to have been stored in thier original boxes since issue, not to mention they werent cheap. The fields on both pieces are prooflike and the copper piece is absolutely stunning in hand, like a mottled cherry red and brown. I need to learn how to photograph coins instead of using my lifeless scanner. Again, thanks.

MadMarty · February 25, 2008 3:37AM

Very Nice!!!

Longacre · February 25, 2008 3:42AM

Really nice!

jonathanb · February 25, 2008 3:49AM

The white metal version is supposed to be much rarer than the others. My copy of Julian is at home, but off the top of my head the mintages were in the order of 6,000 bronze, 1,000 gilt, and 500 white metal. My experience is that the gilt and white metal versions show up at similar rates, and that they are a bit rarer than the bronze version (although nowhere near 10x or even 5x rarer).

The silver variety had 11 struck, of which 2 were melted without ever leaving the mint.

There is a unique gold version that was sold as part of the Ford sales.

Older thread
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DUIGUY · February 25, 2008 4:02AM

Old thread but contains pic of the gold piece, Stacks has a silver piece up for auction.

deansmint · February 25, 2008 4:10AM

Thank you all, I remember reading those old threads and how impressed I was with these medals, and they are much more impressive in hand. DUIGuy, thank you kindly for the heads up on the stacks auction, the coin is already a little too steep for me so I think Ill have to be content with just these two, what do you think it will realize?

Silver Version - Stacks Auction.

speety · February 25, 2008 4:11AM

Very nice. I was very close to pursuing this auction of Jeremy's but didn't want to spend too much on something that I have no clue over.

Mark

jonathanb · February 25, 2008 4:37AM

Note that the auction that speety linked to is a different medal. That one is 38 mm. The one at the top of this thread is 58 mm. Both nice medals, of course. Just different.

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