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Fantastic medal, cptbilly!
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1953 Bronze Italian Holocaust Memorial Medal Outstanding!  |
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Many thanks, Hondo, jbuck, and GLB
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This 76mm medal was made to commemorate Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The obverse shows his design for the Columbian Exposition award medal. The reverse shows his studio / home in New Hampshire below the double eagle gold coin he designed for the U.S.  |
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This 76mm medal was made to commemorate Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Fantastic! |
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Very nice medal, Cdncoins.
My American Silver Eagle collection http://goccf.com/t/448125My random silver coin collection http://goccf.com/t/449270My MS-70 silver coin collection https://goccf.com/t/490829My dragon silver coin collection https://goccf.com/t/490859My silver Libertad collection https://goccf.com/t/491087 |
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Oregon Centennial (1859 - 1959 ) Roseburg, OR, "Souvenir Money" - Trade Token - 50 cents ObverseTwo concentric rings. In the outer ring, flanked to the left by five-pointed star, the caption: 100th ANNIVERSARY 1859 CELEBRATION 1959 OREGON. In the inner ring, factory smokestacks, possibly lumber or paper mills, are bellowing. Below, a Conestoga wagon pulled by oxen. Above the oxen, a whip is wielded by an unseen driver. Ahead of the wagon team, a woodcutter under a pine tree. A horseback rider is also under the tree. This scene is above a stylized banner with the words: FRONTIER OF THE FUTURE. In the center are symbols of transportation: a cargo ship, freight train, and a passenger bus. A prominent fish out of water-- a salmon -- leaps near a dam's spillway. The falling water interlaces with power transmission line stanchions symbolizing the state's hydroelectric energy from the Bonneville Dam. In the background, a commercial airliner passes high above the unmistakeable profile of Mt. Hood. Overlapping both rings is an Oregon State Seal.  ReverseLettering: TIMBER CAPITAL OF THE NATION Good for 50¢ in trade at any cooperative business or redeemable at face value at the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce until 3 P.M. Thursday, September 17, 1959 Roseburg, ORE • SOUVENIR CENTENNIAL MONEY •  I'm not much of a token collector. . .but I've spent some time in the Roseburg area so I associate this token with some good memories." Even a clock that's stopped is right twice a day. "
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02/28/2025 10:30 am
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Very nice add, cptbilly.
My American Silver Eagle collection http://goccf.com/t/448125My random silver coin collection http://goccf.com/t/449270My MS-70 silver coin collection https://goccf.com/t/490829My dragon silver coin collection https://goccf.com/t/490859My silver Libertad collection https://goccf.com/t/491087 |
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Nice token, cptbilly!
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Nice additions. Errers and Varietys.
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Thank you GLB, Hondo, E&V
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Oregon Centennial (1859 - 1959 ) Roseburg, OR, "Souvenir Money" - Trade Token - 50 cents Very nice! |
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Very nice Oregon Centennial piece, Captain, especially to a former Beaver State exonumismatist like me! Over time you could expand your collection pretty easily on ebay, I'm sure, to cover the whole state. Your specimen shows the "common statewide obverse" to which many towns and counties added their own reverse to celebrate/commemorate the state's centennial. These often specified a denomination at which the piece would be accepted "in trade" by local merchants, so it moved in commerce much like a statewide wooden nickel does. Just as many, I believe, were simply distributed as undenominated memorabilia. All the issuers had a different claim to fame, however: e.g., the berry capital, the Sunshine County, the end of the Oregon Trail, etc. I used to see these quite frequently in my coin show expeditions up and down the Willamette Valley and out the Columbia to The Dalles and back when I lived in Portland (much of the 1980's). Not sure I want to trust my memory on this, but I think I saw them in both brass and aluminum. Appreciate the flashback, sir...nice find!
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Has the rejected reverse of this medal by A. Saint-Gaudens already been discussed here?
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