A Continuing Thread ~ Post Your Tokens, Medals, Exonumia Acquisitions

Yes, please post that pamphlet.

The obverse design really stands out to me as spectacular.

Beautiful addition.

Slightly off-topic but does anyone know if there are any CCF members who have knowledge of the Belgium tokens known as "armenpenning" or "broodpenning"? Would be much appreciated.

One of a subset of three Longines Symphonette Sterling Silver Medals
1972 Battle of Wounded Knee


The Ghost Dance spiritual movement, which taught that Indians had been defeated and confined to reservations because they had angered the gods by abandoning their traditional customs. Many Sioux believed that if they practiced the Ghost Dance and rejected the ways of the white man, the gods would create the world anew and destroy all non-believers, including non-Indians. On December 15, 1890, reservation police tried to arrest Sitting Bull, the famous Sioux chief, who they mistakenly believed was a Ghost Dancer, and killed him in the process.

On December 29, the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry surrounded a band of Ghost Dancers under Big Foot, a Lakota Sioux chief, near Wounded Knee Creek and demanded they surrender their weapons. As that was happening, a fight broke out between an Indian and a U.S. soldier and a shot was fired, although it's unclear from which side. A brutal massacre followed, in which it's estimated 150 Indians were killed (some historians put this number at twice as high), nearly half of them women and children. The cavalry lost 25 men.

The conflict at Wounded Knee was originally referred to as a battle, but in reality it was a tragic and avoidable massacre. Surrounded by heavily armed troops, it's unlikely that Big Foot's band would have intentionally started a fight. Some historians speculate that the soldiers of the 7th Cavalry were deliberately taking revenge for the regiment's defeat at Little Bighorn in 1876. Whatever the motives, the massacre ended the Ghost Dance movement and was the last major confrontation in America's deadly war against the Plains Indians.


The reason this medal interests me most and why I had to have it is because I have a correct Wild Bill Hickok Longines Symphonette medal from this series and then I have an error Wild Bill Hickok with the reverse of this Battle of Wounded Knee medal.



I would imagine that if one was looking more closely at these medals, that on occasion, you could find other "mules" on these and they could pop up on just about any other series of medals. I have also found an NRA silver medal with the Marlin 39 rifle and Annie Oakley on the obverse with an incorrect reverse which I have posted about in the A Continuing Thread ~ Post Your Recent Tokens, Medals, Exonumia Acquisition thread.

That is a tremendous medal TNG, and a greatly important topic.

I might have missed it, but have you discussed on this thread or elsewhere anything about medal storage. I have not broached this topic myself.

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Medal storage for Longines seem to just fit in Dollar size 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch foldover holders that have the round Dollar size window. They can be stapled without getting too close to the medals with the bite of a stapler.
They just fit in the window for me. Pages that have 12 pockets instead of 20 for 2x2's are available but watch, 12 of the high relief medals in a page are heavy and careless turning of pages may damage the highpoints of the medals.

I have a 20 pocket page with medals in front of and behind my Longines page. That seems to offset the pressure points somewhat.

It all comes down to what works for you. Some of my much larger medals have ended up in generic jewelry boxes with cotton on top and below.