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

I think you can see how I am trying to connect the medals together with history jbuck.
It will make the Grandkids learn something I hope about American and other famous art, American history and some of the famous people involved.
I know I am learning a lot myself and it will also put a bit more interesting color to my coin collection.
My coin collection and the medal kick are complementing each other as I move along here.
I do think I am coming near the end of a rampage and will probably have to slow down soon on chasing these things.
I have nabbed a lot of my favorite characters. I'd still like to get a few more American folklore items.
Annie Oakley, Paul Bunyan, Moby Dick, Wyatt Earp, and Doc Holiday. Stuff like that.

Two tougher issues from the bronze
Statehood Medallic Art Co Set

Jefferson Davis
Confederate States President

Kentucky born Jefferson Davis was an American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He was a member of the Democratic Party who represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives prior to becoming president of the Confederacy. He was the 23rd United States Secretary of War, serving under U.S. President Franklin Pierce from 1853 to 1857.

Jefferson Davis served six years as a lieutenant in the United States Army. He fought in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), as the colonel of a volunteer regiment. Davis raised a volunteer regiment, the 155th Infantry Regiment, becoming its colonel under the command of his former father-in-law, General Zachary Taylor.

After Davis was captured by Union forces on May 10 1865 at Irwinville in Irwin County, Georgia, he was accused of treason and imprisoned on May 19, 1865 in a casemate at Fortress Monroe on the coast of Virginia.
Irons were riveted to his ankles at the order of General Nelson Miles who was in charge of the fort. Davis was allowed no visitors, and no books except the Bible. He was never tried and was released after two years.
Before the American Civil War, he operated a large cotton plantation in Mississippi and owned as many as 74 slaves. After the Civil War most historians sharply criticize Davis for his flawed military strategy, his selection of friends for military commands, and his neglect of homefront crises.
After his release from prison and pardon, Davis faced continued financial pressures, as well as an unsettled family life, he lost about everything he owned. He was a proud man and would not accept charity but most of his financial ventures were dismal.
Davis had poor health for most of his life, including repeated bouts of malaria, battle wounds from fighting in the Mexican-American War and a chronic eye infection that made bright light painful. He also had a nerve disorder that caused severe pain in his face.

After the war, he contributed to reconciliation of the South with the North, but remained a symbol for Southern pride.


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Sitting Bull

Before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had a vision in which he saw many soldiers, "as thick as grasshoppers," falling upside down into the Lakota camp, which his people took as a foreshadowing of a major victory in which a large number of soldiers would be killed.
About three weeks later, the confederated Lakota tribes with the Northern Cheyenne defeated the 7th Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer on June 25, 1876, annihilating Custer's battalion and seeming to bear out Sitting Bull's prophetic vision.

Annie Oakley was Sitting Bull's symbolically "adopted" daughter. Sitting Bull felt that she was "gifted" by supernatural means in order to shoot so accurately with both hands. He named her "Little Sure Shot" - a name that Oakley used throughout her career.

After working as a performer with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, Sitting Bull returned to the Standing Rock Agency in South Dakota. Because of fears that he would use his influence to support the Ghost Dance movement, Indian Service agent James McLaughlin at Fort Yates ordered his arrest. During an ensuing struggle between Sitting Bull's followers and the agency police, Sitting Bull was shot in the side and head by Standing Rock policemen.

Nice additions, but you know I think the Ike is the best.

The profile is not too different from the US Mint medal. They make for a nice pair...

Griffin, I think I figured it out and found your listings LOL
Quite a bit to look at there!
I grabbed a reverse for your Morgan Coinarama medal above that you listed and will post it here for you.

The 1979 Coinarama medal honored the 110th Anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. In continuing the early United States' desire of Manifest Destiny, a nation that stretches from sea to sea, it was determined that a cross country railroad would be needed to connect the two sides of the country. This would be much faster and more efficient than having to send cargo and migrants by ship around the horn of South America. It was originally brought up in 1832, but construction did not begin until 1863. It's final spike was struck in 1869 at Promontory Summit in Utah.



The medal commemorates this ceremony, and shows two trains facing each other.

Mintage:
Silver - 100 (haven't seen one)
Bronze - 1000
Less than 10 in other metals.

I didn't realize that I had posted a bunch of other medals in other threads before we got this one going. One of my other Robert E. Lee medals http://goccf.com/t/32990&whichpage=204#2560780

This one is for Virginia
Robert E. Lee
Medallic Art Co. bronze 1.5 in.

Robert Edward Lee was an American and Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army. He commanded the Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865. A son of Revolutionary War officer Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III, Lee was a top graduate of the United States Military Academy and an exceptional officer and military engineer in the United States Army for 32 years. During this time, he served throughout the United States, distinguished himself during the Mexican-American War, and served as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy.

When Virginia declared its secession from the Union in April 1861, Lee chose to follow his home state, despite his desire for the country to remain intact and an offer of a senior Union command.
During the first year of the Civil War, Lee served as a senior military adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

In the summer of 1863, Lee invaded the North again, marching through western Maryland and into south central Pennsylvania. He encountered Union forces under George G. Meade at the three-day Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania in July. That battle would produce the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War.

More nice additions.