Yes!
I first documented my research findings of a 56 year old mysterious set of medals struck by the Bureau of the Mint (now called the US Mint) in 2014. For 56 years, the entire series was undocumented by the numismatic community and without general numismatic information.
Two books and roughly 5 months later (today), I created a website explaining this relatively still unknown US medal series outside my book (book content is copyrighted). I'm also in the process of finalizing my third book about these numismatic medals.
I even assigned non-commercial names (common name for an individual medal or entire series) that can be freely used by the numismatic community. The name....
President of the United States special Government medal or
POTUS sGm for short. The entire series is called
POTUS sGm Series.
The website (blog portion still under construction) was launched today:
http://potus-sgm.com/In my opinion, these US Mint medals are actually sleepers, if you can find them from a dealer or individual not aware of my two published books.
As an example, my historical price records shows that you could have purchased a Class 2 medal for $24.99 in July 2009. As of February 2016, a similar Class 2 medal sold for $619.00.
My website provides basic information about this numismatic medal series.
These numismatic medals are true-to-life presidential artifacts. These medals were either personally awarded by the President or issued with direction of the President. In addition, the silver and gold medals not awarded/issued were destroyed by mutilation by the US Treasury prior to the end of the President's term in office.
So...what was really discovered?
1. An undocumented series that was produced/issued by the US Mint.
2. 15 types of undocumented individual US Mint issues (with common theme).
3. First fully documented example of US Mint function to produce/issue special medals for a US Government agency (White House Office).
What is the significance about this discoveries?1. Official names of the series was established by a numismatic research (out stepped the US Mint).
2. Official name for each of the 15 types of medals was established by a numismatic research (out stepped the US Mint).
3. Establishment of domain knowledge for the POTUS sGm series and individual POTUS sGm issues.
4. Identification of previously undocumented presidential artifacts.
Posted 11/05/2016 5:24 pm
