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Looking back on this Bill it occurs to me that Tower Mint are a merchandising company. They sell overpriced junk supposedly collectable coins and medals. They describe themselves as "designers and manufacturers of collectable coins and medals. Specialises in limited edition mintings."
It's more than probable that they don't actually press the goods themselves.
My hunch is that this mis match of medals happened at the company subcontracted to strike the medals. Best guess, Pobjoy.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I just noticed this one, and the mechanics of the strike are tricky to figure out.  So I flipped it so we can read the other text. There are both raised right-reading and incuse reverse text going on--I'll try to wrap my brain around this one.  Edited by DVCollector
01/22/2014 12:49 am
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That 'flip' does help! (I tried 'rotating', without much luck).
Can you make out all phrases?
Bill
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I think you'll find this to be the exact image on the obverse:  From a Japanese tennis website http://j-tennis.com/s-tennis/But I don't think the origin is Japanese. Finding some New Zealand references. |
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Yes! That is a side of the Tennis medal!
Amazing!
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Bedrock of the Community
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 Sure looks it! But, how did this get this way?  Was it a brockage of the tennis medal on a blank--on both sides? I suspect the tennis medal impression happened first, otherwise the fields of that medal would flatten the coat of arms, etc. However, if a police medal was struck after the tennis piece, the fields of that die would not flatten the incuse lettering of the former. And you can just see the "S" in SEARCH overlapping the ribbon design--but slightly obscured. If the "S" were struck later, it would be sharply incuse. |
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The other side is an image of the Glenturret Distillery (Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland), makers of the Famous Grouse blended Scotch whisky. Hard to connect that with a pee-wee tennis league. And the font is different from the obverse.
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What a strange medal! Metropolitan Police devices on both sides, Tennis and Scottish distillery logos on opposite sides. AND, many phrases and devices are reversed and incuse!
Bizarre!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Good job reading the other side! I just assumed both sides were related. |
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Edited by philadelphian
01/22/2014 8:56 pm
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Posted 01/22/2014 12:44 am
