The "Lucky Lindy" medal posted above was part of a lot that included two additional Lindbergh medals:
Medal #1A MACO produced 1.5 inch "Golden Jubilee" medal issued by The International Aerospace Hall of Fame in 1977, designed by Barbara Hyde, whose husband, Richard Hyde, was a sales representative for The Medallic Art Company, according to the Dick Johnson database entry:
https://www.dickjohnsonsdatabank.co...barbara.html
The obverse notes Lindbergh's DOB & DOD, describing him as "An Intrepid Airman" and "Dedicated Patriot." The reverse notes the distance, hours, and minutes flown beneath a depiction of "The Spirit of St. Louis" and the Eiffel Tower, along with the May 1927 dates of his solo crossing of the Atlantic.
Medal #2In March,1977, the International Silver Co. of Meriden, Connecticut, under contract to the newly formed Charles A.Lindbergh Memorial Fund, co-chaired by Gen James Doolittle and Neil Armstrong, initiated a seven medal subscription series of Lindbergh tribute medals whose royalties were intended
Quote:
"to supply the income for study fellowships in the fields that had been of keen interest to Lindbergh: exploration, the preserving of wildlife and natural resources, and aeronautics as related to the balance between technology and the environment."
Source: New York Times Numismatics Column, 3/27/1977, Russ Mackendrick
Six of the seven medals in the series, as described in the NYT article, were to be 1-5/8", 1 troy ounce silver, issued one per month, from March to August. The seventh medal was to be 2 inches across, minted in .925 fine silver, weighing in at 1.75 troy ounces. The NYT article [
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/27/...-flight.html ] describes the entire series. Subscriptions were $34.95 plus $1.95 for postage and handling, for each medal.
Below is a 1.5 inch reeded edge bronze version of the final medal in the International Silver subscription series:
Credit for the design is given to Marcel Jovine. It appears Hyde and Jovine took their inspirations from Acme News -- later absorbed by UPI-- photographer Frank J. Merta's famous portrait of Lindbergh, taken at Mitchell Field, NY, about a month after he completed his historic voyage:
In May 2019, Heritage Auctions sold an NGC graded / CAG certified MS67 50th Anniversary Bronze from the Neil Armstrong Family Collection for $225.00.
Boxed sets of the silver seven medallion collection can be seen in the secondary markets. Does anyone know if there is a seven medal bronze counterpart ?
P.S. The seller of this lot of medals calls his store "
mywifedoesnotunderstand". . .
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