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I just received my "P" 9/11 Medal...

renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Not bad if it were not for the strange wording and lack of obvious recognition. I like the reverse better than I thought sans the Hope and Honor part. Still confusing. But anyway, I still have smoe questions. Has there ever been a US medal that depicted a mint mark? And in one ounce silver?

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    TomBTomB Posts: 23,270 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Benjamin Franklin Firefighter medal has a P mintmark and it is one ounce silver.
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    illini420illini420 Posts: 11,703 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The silver medal that came in the 1993 Philadelphia Set has a P mintmark too.

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    SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I got mine yesterday, and against the grain of what has been said about it - I like it. It is stark and somewhat ambiguous - and can be compared to the Viet-Nam wall in Washington DC. I remember when the wall was built a lot of people were upset by it's perceived lack of symbolism. In retrospect Maya Lin designed something very thought provocative - and now highly regarded for it's symbolism. I cannot say that people will definitely feel this way about the 9-11 medal in 30 years, but it is hard to predict the future.
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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,988 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A wall, which is a public monument, is a lot different from the a medal. The wall was impressive because people could look up the names of their relatives or people they knew. There was a guy who graduated from my high school a year ahead of me, and it was moving to find his name, even though I did not know him well.

    The medal is small impersonal piece that rarely takes off as a collectable.
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    illini420illini420 Posts: 11,703 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I still don't get the two different colors of what is supposedly water on the reverse?? Oh well.

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