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

I love the look of the gilt bronze.

Although this one could be posted ( as well as a number of my other US minted modern silver medals ) in post your latest US coins or latest acquisitions, I'll post it here cause it is a medal and it's new to me.

I think these are beautiful medals. A US Dollar design like this rather than presidents or Sacagawea dollars would be just fine with me.

2016 W US American Liberty Silver Medal NGC PF69

NGC Look Up certification https://www.NGCcoin.com/certlookup/4509134-035/69/
Coincidently, I bought this W mint a year later after I bought the S mint issue, which is from the same submission batch from the same seller. They both look better in hand than these images.
I have no problem buying PF or MS 69 graded coins or medals. The PF70's in my opinion, could always get carbon or milk spots or have a fingerprint show up on them and the prices I would have paid would be a blow to the selling value down the road. Besides, it is still just a grading opinion.

Here's the new W mint.



2016 S US American Liberty Silver Medal NGC PF69

NGC Look Up certification https://www.NGCcoin.com/certlookup/4509134-011/69/

Beautiful piece TNG . And will agree CrazyB is a very fine person.

very nice indeed !

to come back to Pocahontas, I also like the look of the gilt bronze, on a >100yr old piece

the gilding was not applied everywhere on the medal, I wonder how did they achieve this effect, it is amazing

gilt does not wear off easily (see this 1568 example http://goccf.com/t/284217&whichpage=23#2782849) and your medal probably never circulated;
so I am inclined to think that it was designed this way - with a great effect

That's a beauty!

I think the medal I have may have been a "pocket piece" for awhile or maybe even deliberately rubbed a lot or even cleaned long ago. It may have just ended up this way, but notice your link points to HK-346
On this link you can see both HK-346 and HK-347 if you scroll down a bit. https://www.expositionmedals.com/1907/
I don't think all gilt medals, of any kinds, have the same amount of gold plating on the blanks. I assume that they were plated blanks before striking? Some may have very thick and others not so thick a layer. Could be uneven too?

I looked at a lot of these before buying mine. Bronze and gilt.
Mine looks like it might have some rim bumps too.
I still kept being drawn back to the one I got after watching it a couple months, I asked for a slightly better discount and still had to pay more than the one your ebay link pointed to.
( I still like mine better )

See mine on the right appears to have more wear on the strands of hair behind the eye and the earring as well as other places like the edges of the feathers. Mine may be a mid to high XF while the one you show maybe high AU?




I see that there were also other versions

HK-344 Silver. 34mm.
HK-345 Silver-plated Bronze.
HK-346 Bronze.
HK-347 Gilt.