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'keep My Paupers Busy' Medal Lampoons 'king' Victoria On 50th Year Of Her Reign

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‘keep-My-Paupers-Busy’-Medal-Lampoons-‘king’-Victoria-On-50th-Year-Of-Her-ReignCoinWorld - American political medalets go back at least to the 1840s, and over the decades, pieces appeared lampooning some candidates or extravagantly praising others.

Candidates with long political "shelf lives" such as Democrat Grover Cleveland, are represented by a long list lavishing fervent praise or stinging denunciation. Cleveland was America's only president to serve two terms separated by four years of Republican rule (by Benjamin Harrison, 1888 to 1892).

Nearly all medals of this era were cataloged by J. Doyle DeWitt in 1959 in his A Century of American Political Buttons, which reappeared as American Political Badges and Medalets 1789-1892, with a title page now identifying the author as Edmund B. Sullivan.

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