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

1997 Pioneer Annie Oakley 10 dollar OBV (shiny version)
following up on frosted version post here > http://goccf.com/t/301479&whichpage=55#2755399

There is a recognized difference by casino strike collectors of this issue. One being frosted, and the other being "shiny".
This is the shiny version.

I only chased it down because I found these listed as such and found a webpage differentiating them with catalog numbers.
Here is a comparison image to show what I'm trying to explain here.

These are my actual medals and they match the images on a page I found here if you scroll down just a bit.
I had the image but took it down as I am waiting on permission to use it.
https://www.silverstrikers.com/Web/...Page-01.php/

Fantastic! I have a silver version in the 2013 C&C set.

Congratulations, Spruett!

1906 Zebulon Pike's
Southwest Expedition
Commemorative Medal


Zebulon Montgomery Pike (January 5, 1779 - April 27, 1813) was an American brigadier general and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado was renamed (from El Capitan).


As a U.S. Army officer he led two expeditions under authority of third President Thomas Jefferson through the new Louisiana Purchase territory, first in 1805-06 to reconnoiter the upper northern reaches of the Mississippi River, and then in 1806-07 to explore the Southwest to the fringes of the northern Spanish-colonial settlements of New Mexico and Texas.
Pike's expeditions coincided with other Jeffersonian expeditions, including the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) and the Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis expedition up the Red River (1806).
Pike's second expedition crossed the Rocky Mountains into what is now southern Colorado, which led to his capture by the Spanish colonial authorities near Santa Fe, who sent Pike and his men to Chihuahua (present-day Mexico), for interrogation.
Later in 1807, Pike and some of his men were escorted by the Spanish through Texas and released near American territory in Louisiana.

In 1810, Pike published an account of his expeditions, a book so popular that it was translated into Dutch, French, and German languages, for publication in Europe. He later achieved the rank of brigadier general in the American Army and served during the War of 1812, until he was killed during the Battle of York, in April 1813, outside the then British colonial capital of Upper Canada (later Ontario).

Cool medal TNG. Some humorous trivia about old Zebulon: in early 1807, he crossed over the Sangre de Cristo mountains through Mosca Pass, saw the Great Sand Dunes, and thought he'd hit the Pacific Ocean. Poor dude was seriously lost. I think I picked that up from a sign on the Mosca Pass trail many years ago.

@TNG: interesting story with an attractive medal, nicely toned

@Spence: Barcelona is magic indeed, with so much to see.

Same here, shore leave back in 77-78. Hard to take your eyes off it, very impressive. I didn't have a lot of time as I headed to the train station to take a train to Paris for a week. I did have some of the best pizza I've ever eaten in my life in Barcelona but that could be because of eating ship food .