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Anyone Know A Reference For These Types Of 19th Century Medals?

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I have a number of eastern and western European medals- sports and music. They are relatively inexpensive so probably amateur leagues, etc. I can find references online to higher quality pieces, but really not much about this class of medals. The notations were my notes from many years ago.

Does anyone know where to research this type of exonumia?

Thanks.


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The on e on the top left is actually a war commemorative for the Austro-Hungary Prussian 7 weeks war of 1866. Seems to be from the losing side. "Heroic Warriors of Austria". One side is German (Austria) the rear appears to be in Czech. Maybe that is why a cheaper medal was used? I will investigate material density. It looks like some inexpensive base metal (maybe based on zinc).
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I have been researching some of the collection. Most them are made of "white metal" tin based alloys that vary from tin to pewter. The white metal densities are coming in 6.7-8.5 g/cc depending on composition (lead likely in the 8.5). None are magnetic. One medal is aluminum. Some are looking like bronze/brass (one density = 8.7, bright yellow brass/bronze) or copper. Most of what I have are from Czechia, many in German and Czech, later ones moving to more Czech only as during this period Czechia was re-establishing their heritage and separating more from German (Bohemia; Austro-Hungary). I am learning a lot about the Czech Republic going through this. I wish I did this before our trip to Czechia/Hungary/Austria (others) last year. I would have had better knowledge and probably would have brought some coins back!
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Google, Google Lens, and Numista are useful.

I'm sure people here will help if you post one coin per image the right way up, and include both sides in a post, and state the weight in grams, the diameter in mm, and the material.
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nice coins - make sure you flatten out the staples so you don't scratch other coins with them.


Good point! (or bad points...)

BTW does this forum not support [Quote=<name?]xxxxx[/Quote] ?
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I'm sure people here will help if you post one coin per image the right way up, and include both sides in a post, and state the weight in grams, the diameter in mm, and the material.


I do need to get my set-up for photographing coins going...
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