Official Presidential Inaugural Medals

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• BillJones Posts: 34,840 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 12, 2010 11:27PM

  I dabble with presidential inauguration medals. I only collect those that are not too expensive (less than $1,000) for presidents I respected or who are of historic interest to me. So far as the silver pieces go, you collection can go back to Kennedy fairly easily. The 1956 Eisenhower is scarce (1,033 minted), but doable. Beyond that the silver pieces are too rare to consider with mintages of like 1 or 2 pieces.
  
  I have the book by Joe Levine and the earlier book that I can’t spot on my shelf at the moment. I would think that a numismatic book seller, like Charles Davis, could track one down for you at a reasonable cost.
  
  Here are a couple of pieces I own. The Truman piece is a bit tougher because a number of them have been stained by the paper in which they were issued. There is an interesting bit of symbolism on this piece with the outlines of the common man and woman in the background. It symbolized Truman’s surprise win in the 1948 election in which the people fooled the experts with his win over Dewey.
  
  
  
  This FDR piece from his 1945 inaugural interested me because it shows how bad his health was when he was elected his fourth term.
  
  

  Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?

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• Trime Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭

  June 12, 2010 11:47PM

  Bill,
  Great medals. Interesting choice of presidents.

  Trime

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• RWB Posts: 8,082 ✭

  June 13, 2010 12:02AM

  PRESIDENTIAL COIN & ANTIQUE COMPANY
  Box 277
  Clifton, VA 20124
  
  H.Joseph Levine
  Phone (571) 321-2121
  Fax (571) 321-0696
  JLevine968@aol.com
  

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• bigmarty58 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

  June 13, 2010 12:19AM

  Bill,
  
  Very nice pictures and great advice on collecting these historic medals.
  
  -Bob
  
  p.s. Mr. Levine thank you for responding.

  Enthusiastic collector of British pre-decimal and Canadian decimal circulation coins.

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