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:) Everybody reading this forum is passionate about numismatics --- which is precisely what makes it the place to talk about "how a coin becomes a coin" (or, in this case, "how a medal… (View Post)

Honoring a living person with his portrait on a national medal is different from disagreeing over aesthetics, like if the Gettysburg Address is best symbolized by Abraham Lincoln or by a fallen soldi… (View Post)

Completely different creation processes. Congressional Gold Medals are authorized through a very long and deliberative process that expresses the will of the people through their congressional repres… (View Post)

In the past, Treasury Secretaries’ authority to create gold coins and national medals of their own choosing has been reserved for subjects of truly national importance -- to mark the end of World War… (View Post)

That's a wonderful medal honoring a great golfer and humanitarian. It's actually a Congressional Gold Medal (awarded by Congress), as opposed to a national medal created by the Secretary of… (View Post)