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Lucky Cuss Pillar of the Community United States 4883 Posts	Posted 04/09/2019 7:35 pm I have to confess I hadn't realized how far back medals made from aluminum went. This first is #239 in my 1963 edition of So-Called Dollars, where it's described as being "Very scarce." Too bad it's had a hole put in it. The second is #249 in the aforementioned book, where its availability is assessed as "Common holed but rare without hole." Both were struck from wonderfully detailed dies. Colligo ergo sum Report this Post to the Staff

thisistheshow Pillar of the Community United States 987 Posts	Posted 04/10/2019 12:05 am Quote: Both were struck from wonderfully detailed dies. Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 187702 Posts	Posted 04/10/2019 10:00 am Nice examples! 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
BStrauss3 Pillar of the Community United States 4588 Posts	Posted 04/10/2019 1:23 pm http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...an_gold.html Quote: From a world production total of perhaps a few ounces per month in the decades before, by 1888, the largest U.S. aluminum company (the one that became Alcoa) could produce almost 50 pounds of aluminum each day. Within 20 years, it had to ship out 88,000 pounds per day to meet demand. -----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ Report this Post to the Staff
DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9862 Posts	Posted 04/10/2019 5:20 pm Nice medals! I wonder how costly these were compared to, say bronze, medals in those days. "Dipping" is not considered cleaning... -from PCGS website Report this Post to the Staff
Lucky Cuss Pillar of the Community United States 4883 Posts	Posted 04/11/2019 2:02 pm Quote: I wonder how costly these were compared to, say bronze, medals in those days. Per Wikipedia's History of aluminium (their choice of spelling) page, refining processes newly developed in the late 1880's made aluminum far more obtainable than had previously been the case. To quote the webpage, "The prices for aluminium declined, and by the early 1890s, the metal had become widely used in jewelry, eyeglass frames, optical instruments, and many everyday items." Nevertheless, at the time of the Columbian Exposition, aluminum was still considered a novel, if not downright exotic, material. The reverses of some of the medals struck were specifically devoted to touting the useful properties of aluminum. Colligo ergo sum Report this Post to the Staff
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