Posted 08/18/2013 6:34 pm
Just to clarify: "coins" are issued by a government and have legal tender status, neither of which applies to these pieces. So technically, they are "medals".
Medals are much harder to value than coins, because there are fewer collectors of them. There's also a vast array of issuers and types to try to keep track of. The company that made or commissioned this medal, "American Commemorative Mint Inc", no longer exists; since they're practically invisible to Google, I'd assume they didn't last long and they didn't make many different medals - perhaps this is the only thing they made. Mintage numbers are unknown and, if the company has evaporated completely, probably unknowable unless your little card mentions this on the back.
With no history of sales to speak of, your guess as to value is as good as anyone else's. I don't know if the "trace 200" gimmick would appeal much to medal collectors.
Medals are much harder to value than coins, because there are fewer collectors of them. There's also a vast array of issuers and types to try to keep track of. The company that made or commissioned this medal, "American Commemorative Mint Inc", no longer exists; since they're practically invisible to Google, I'd assume they didn't last long and they didn't make many different medals - perhaps this is the only thing they made. Mintage numbers are unknown and, if the company has evaporated completely, probably unknowable unless your little card mentions this on the back.
With no history of sales to speak of, your guess as to value is as good as anyone else's. I don't know if the "trace 200" gimmick would appeal much to medal collectors.
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