Okay, so I have a complete collection of Presidential bronze medals as produced by the U.S. Mint, both the three-inch medals and the 1 5/16-inch versions. As each new President is elected, I patiently wait until the U.S. Mint offers the new medals. Of course, I'm still waiting on the medals for Mr. Obama.
I've read that there are no official Presidential medals for President Obama because Mr. Obama simply never followed up with the U.S. Mint to have the medals created. I'm perfectly fine with this, since it's his decision whether he wants a U.S. medal created for his presidency.
My only question is: Will future generations understand why there is a U.S. Mint medal for every president, except Mr. Obama?
If you're not familiar with the Presidential series of medals produced by the U.S. Mint, here is the webpage:
http://catalog.usmint.gov/medals/presidential/As you can see, many of the later presidents even had separate medals for each term that they served. There are plenty of unofficial privately-produced Obama coins and medals out there, but when will folks start noticing that the U.S. Mint series is incomplete?
Posted 09/25/2015 12:07 pm
