A Continuing Thread ~ Post Your Tokens, Medals, Exonumia Acquisitions

Nice package arrived today from thisistheshow!

A fellow CCF member who has cheered me on in my medal posts has sent me TWO of these GOOD LUCK medals. I have found they are also found with a date of 1934 on the obverse.

1933 Century Of Progress Good Luck Brass Medal


Thank you thisistheshow! The duplicate is going with me to give to a young numismatist of 7 or 8 years old as I have been given permission to do this from our generous CCF friend.
His "show and tell" presentations at our monthly meetings are always a kick.
The kid is surely a future star in the numismatic world.
For the kid from thisistheshow, not me.

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Nice one Dorado!
I love religious medals/pendants/tokens

Now that you say that, and I look, I feel as though I see it. But help me by telling me what you see so I can see if I am right. Maybe it will help others too.

I will have to look at the third one to compare later as well.

* Tokens * (United States - Automatic Tokens)

Control Token - CTX 325

Might just be the angle. I don't see it. (yet) The lighting angle is different too.
Sometimes I take an image of a coin and resize it to be 500x500 then crop a circle. It could distort the size of lettering a little.

Late Edit: I just looked at both in hand under a good loupe and they both appear the same to me.

Two bronze medals.

ANA conference participation medal 1979

Robert E Preston Mint Director 1893-1899

1971 Paul Revere
Great Patriots of the United States
Sterling Silver Medal


A silver bullion lesson from a silversmith himself, Paul Revere

Although Paul Revere warned his countrymen that the British were on the march, let him warn you that a medal that contains an ounce of pure silver is sometimes misleading.

This is a sterling silver medal and weighs about 30.6 grams.
Since sterling is .925 pure, then .925 x 30.6 = 28.305#8236; grams
Yes, that is quite close to an avoirdupois ounce isn't it?
However, a troy ounce is heavier and generally most silver bullion rounds are 1 troy ounce .999 silver.

A close (rounded off) comparison
1 avoirdupois oz = 28.35 grams
1 troy oz = 31.1 grams

I paid $13.75 in total including tax & shipping for this medal on a day that silver was $17.74 per troy ounce.

Since there is always a "refining fee" for silver that is less than .999, that takes about 10% off the top if I were to cash it in at a bullion dealer.
So today this medal has about $15.97 worth of pure silver in it.
That would be about .51 cents a gram and since this has 28.3105 grams I would get around $14.44 cents selling this Paul Revere medal from a bullion dealer.

If I were to go to that same bullion dealer, the 10% goes the other way, a "buyers premium" and I could expect to pay about $17.55 for this medal.

I am ahead on this medal I got today for two reasons.
1. I beat todays spot price.
2. I collect Paul Revere medals and this is one I rarely seen before.

There are markings on the edge, In the first square I see CO which I believe is for minted in Cincinnati, Ohio as that is where the 60 Great Patriots of the United States sterling silver medals were minted. After that, in the second square is the logo for the Danbury mint. Then I see 71 in the third square so I know that is the year it was minted. The fourth square has what looks like a letter P, which I am informed is for "Proof" finish.


I am pretty sure this is from the Danbury Mint, Westport, Connecticut.
Danbury Mint historically marketed high quality medals and ingots produced by others exclusively for them.