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

Very nice!

Just arrived. Issued by the Disme Coin Co., 1oz .999 copper rounds.






Common reverse

GREAT new posts! Thank you!

Very nice!

Hey, I didn't say "No comments should follow this post."

Got kinda quiet in here.

This is not a commemorative medal that could be simply purchased when issued. These US mint struck medals were personally awarded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower or gifted by his direction at the 1960 Paris Summit during May 1960.

Classified as a Presidential Numismatic Artifact (PNA) since they were manufactured by the US Mint specifically for President Eisenhower's use, awarded/gifted by President Eisenhower, and is connected to one of the most trying times (U-2 incident) of the Cold War in US history.

A great number of these medals were destroyed after the collapse of the 1960 Paris Summit.

Thanks DrDarryl!

1901 Exposition Lighted at Night


1901 Pan American Exposition
Electric Tower - Temple of Music
McKinley Assassination
Looped Medal



This medal can also be found looped or without a loop having other reverses/obverses.
I have found

Electric Tower and The World's Greatest Wonder. - Niagara Falls

Where President McKinley was assassinated - Temple of Music and Where President McKinley President McKinley died - Milburn House

Perhaps there are more.

Triumphal Bridge



Electric Tower


Temple of Music


President McKinley arrived just on time to the Temple of Music at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo New York on September 6, 1901.
The pipe organ began to play "The Star-Spangled Banner" as McKinley ordered the doors open to admit those who had waited to greet him. The police let them in, and McKinley prepared to perform his "favorite part of the job".
An experienced politician, McKinley could shake hands with 50 people per minute, gripping their hands first so as to both guide them past him quickly and prevent his fingers from being squeezed.
The procession of citizens shaking hands with their President was interrupted when 12-year-old Myrtle Ledger of Spring Brook, New York, who was accompanied by her mother, asked McKinley for the red carnation he always wore on his lapel. The President gave it to her, then resumed work without his trademark good-luck piece.
The usual rule that those who approached the President must do so with their hands open and empty was not being enforced, perhaps due to the heat of the day, as several people were using handkerchiefs to wipe their brows; the man who followed the swarthy individual had his right hand wrapped in one, as if injured.
Seeing this, McKinley reached for his left hand instead. As the two men's hands touched at 4:07 pm, Czolgosz shot McKinley twice in the abdomen with a .32 Iver Johnson revolver concealed under the handkerchief.
President William McKinley died on September 14, 1901 as a result of initial injury and subsequent infection.