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

Here's another Exposition medal struck by the US Mint...

The Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition was held in Nashville, Tennessee from May 1 to October 31, 1897. The Expo was staged to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tennessee's admission into the Union as the 16th state. It would have been nice to have held the Expo in 1896, Tennessee's actual statehood centennial year, but funding issues and construction delays pushed the event into 1897. Nonetheless, the fair was successful and was attended by just under 1.7 million visitors, it also earned a small profit.

The US Congress authorized $100,000 to participate in the Exposition, which included the set up of a US Mint exhibit. Souvenir medals of a single design were struck in the Mint's exhibit booth. The medals were designed by Charles Barber and were struck in gold-plated (gilt) brass. The obverse depicts the Mint Building in Philadelphia, the reverse features an inscription identifying the Exposition.

Its design is not very "Tennessee Expo," but it was what it is!

Nice medals!

* Tokens * (Canada - Local Dollar Tokens)
1975 Dollar - Edmonton, Alberta.
End of the Steel.

Nice examples!

Very nice!

Lovely example!

1917 Battle of Verdun Silver Medal
by S.E. Vernier



This is a more scarce silver medal that is the same size as the bronze one that I have collected and that post can be seen here.
http://goccf.com/t/301479&whichpage=111#2918152

The video in that post was removed by yoo-toobe so here's another.

At 7:12 a.m. on the morning of February 21, 1916, a shot from a German Krupp 38-centimeter long-barreled gun—one of over 1,200 such weapons set to bombard French forces along a 20-kilometer front stretching across the Meuse River—strikes a cathedral in Verdun, France, beginning the Battle of Verdun, which would stretch on for 10 months and become the longest conflict of World War I.

I believe there were about 143,000 casualties on the Germany side and 162,440 on the French in this battle alone. Perhap I am wrong or those numbers were for a particular vicinity or timeframe. I am not sure?
(The video gives much higher casualty numbers near the end of the video and I have read The battle lasted for 302 days, the longest and one of the most costly in human history.
In 2000, Hannes Heer and Klaus Naumann calculated that the French suffered 377,231 casualties and the Germans 337,000, a total of 714,231, an average of 70,000 a month.
In 2014, William Philpott wrote of 976,000 casualties in 1916 and 1,250,000 in the vicinity during the war.)

World War I Era 1917 France Battle Of Verdun "On Ne Passe Pas" Memorial Medal. Loosly translated, "On Ne Passe Pas" means "We're Not Going", or, more likely "They Shall Not Pass", referring to the German Army.
This battle was so bloody men called it the "Meat Grinder".

This medal was sculpted by S.E. Vernier in 1917. With a reverse text of "Verdun 21 Fevrier 1916", (VERDUN February 21, 1916) this medal measures 37mm (1 7/16 inch) in diameter.