Medallic Art Company (Maco) Medals

nice medals Billy!

An Update:
In April, 2025, the co-author of a scholarly examination of the Bicentennial era reached out to me as a result of a post in this thread: https://www.coincommunity.com/forum...y_ID=4267210 This month, Yale University Press published the book:

The "Twin Bicentennial" medal is part of a chapter presenting a history of the city of San Francisco's civic and cultural efforts to marry the nation's Bicentennial with its own:

In August, 2026, when I became aware of the publication date, I dropped a note to the author:


Her response:


I'm looking forward to reading this in the weeks to come.

The scholar who contacted me also visited Commems' US Mint A R B A threads. She is a PhD Candidate, Department of Art History and Criticism, Stony Brook University, and is Assistant Curator of Twentieth Century Art, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE.

A podcast interview with the authors can be found on You Tube:

Mods: Didn't intend to embed the video, only to provide the link to same. . .

The absence of a USM Bronze Medal commemorating the Semiquincentennial underscores the signicant difference in the efforts made to mark our 200th anniversary and now. Very disappointed nothing was done to mark the moment in an affordable way.