1856 Medal Of President Jorge Córdova- Bolivia

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markustg New Member United States 6 Posts	Posted 07/03/2025 12:43 pm This 1856 Medal of President Jorge Córdova from Bolivia has me wondering how to learn more about Medals in general. I did find it on Numista, https://en.numista.com/catalogue/ex...a384429.html It is listed as a 97 " rare". It has been cleaned and it's silver, but all I could find was a reference of Tapia# 214 which is a book Medallas monetarias y conmemorativas de Bolivia 1825-1925 Author Raul Ernesto Tapia Bascope So what does that really mean? Grade? Value? I don't know tokens and medal at all. Report this Post to the Staff

jbuck Moderator United States 187446 Posts	Posted 07/08/2025 4:19 pm Quote: So what does that really mean? Grade? Value? I don't know tokens and medal at all. Bumping to see if anyone has an answer for you. Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
CoinForMe Pillar of the Community United States 2113 Posts	Posted 07/08/2025 4:37 pm markustg Hope this is what you're asking about.. Your medal is non-circulating and not legal tender, so its "grade" (e.g., G4) and "value" depend entirely on collector demand, rarity, condition, and silver content, not face value. So, no set value has been established for your medal. Edited by CoinForMe 07/08/2025 4:41 pm Report this Post to the Staff
jecz79 Pillar of the Community Portugal 655 Posts	Posted 07/08/2025 7:10 pm Almost all really old medals have been cleaned. Do not worry about finding pristine ones or you will never collect old medals. The condition of yours is very nice for the age. It is a small sized one. Those were not made with much care to detail. Report this Post to the Staff
HondoB Bedrock of the Community United States 24858 Posts	Posted 07/08/2025 9:15 pm to the CCF, markustg. The Numista Rarity Index must be taken with caveats - it's based on the number of Numista users who have reported owning that item. It may or may not be an indicator of actual rarity. I have a medal from this series (see below) that I have not reported there. I paid $12 for it two years ago. Bolivia 1 Sol 1854: Fourth Anniversary of the Constitutional Presidency of Belzu https://en.numista.com/catalogue/ex...a372613.html Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures Report this Post to the Staff
jecz79 Pillar of the Community Portugal 655 Posts	Posted 07/09/2025 5:46 pm That is true and I will go further. The Numista rarity index is meaningless. Other information is often wrong. By way of example. A coin I know well and will never have is this one. https://pt.numista.com/catalogue/pieces97470.html It may be the the first coin struck in my country as a sovereign state. There is one genuine intact coin. The one in the museum, pictured there. There are less than half a dozen others very degraded. All the other intact ones in the market are fakes. Including those in plastic bricks. Numista has for its rarity index 90. This is a fake. The type never existed. https://pt.numista.com/catalogue/pieces369162.html This is another fake, old one from the eighteenhundreds. Metal analysis by the museum proved it years ago. It is still in Numista. https://pt.numista.com/catalogue/pieces364659.html Report this Post to the Staff
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