Gorham 13 Colonies Medallions Doubled Lettered Edge Only Word "gorham"

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gorham_collector Valued Member United States 426 Posts	Posted 02/22/2019 11:32 pm I recently bought a full 13 colonies set which is awesome and also purchased a one medallion in the original mint box that you could buy for $13.50 in 1976 if only wanting one medallion instead of the set for $150. I also got a newspaper clipping with the single medallion that shows the actually die used to mint the medallion. The medallion in particular I'm talking about is a Rhode Island one. On the lettered edge "Gorham" is clearly doubled. Now I don't know why all the lettered edge wouldn't be doubled on the medallion and just gorham. But I know of two ways lettered edges would be minted on coins one is a three way press where no errors could occur and lastly it would be minted on separately and rolled onto by a machine. Now I have no clue how the gorham would've done it maybe each word one by one? I've been doing so much research can't find anything and the only picture I have of an actually die used to produce one of the medallions is the Rhode Island die on the newspaper clipping. I'll post pics of both the doubles edge and the die of the newspaper clipping. Report this Post to the Staff

Jadey Pillar of the Community United States 900 Posts	Posted 02/23/2019 12:44 pm That's pretty strange indeed. I have five of these and looking at the writing, and it appears to me like they are going for a 3d or shadowed relief in the letters. I wonder if maybe it takes two passes to create that effect, and yours got a little off. Just a possibility, but you would think it would show in the rest of the edge lettering like you said. Report this Post to the Staff
gorham_collector Valued Member United States 426 Posts	Posted 02/23/2019 1:29 pm Thinking about it possibly when it was passed through it was light and then the second pass through it would make it darker on the side? I just find it strange how it's only being shown on the GORHAM I don't recall if I said it in the post but maybe the letterededge each word was put on separately but I highly doubt that in the fact that all the words on the edge line up together when putting the medallions ontop of each other the words are evenly spaced the same way Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 187792 Posts	Posted 02/23/2019 11:19 pm to the Community! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
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Gorham 13 Colonies Medallions Doubled Lettered Edge Only Word "Gorham"