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Lucky Cuss Pillar of the Community United States 4883 Posts	Posted 09/27/2021 8:01 pm I came across this today in a shop's box of unsorted material. It exhibits traces of the original luster and is absolutely in much better condition than the one I'd previously acquired and posted here a couple of years back. Its diameter is 25.4 mm (precisely 1 inch). The engraving has been credited to George T. Morgan. See: https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/p...tive-medal-0 This specimen appears to me to have been struck in bronze or copper rather than brass. I've seen an assertion that modern reproductions of these were made, but I've been unable to find out more about those, and thus can't rule out that that's what I have here, which could account for its apparent high grade. Colligo ergo sum Report this Post to the Staff

Spence Moderator United States 34462 Posts	Posted 09/27/2021 8:17 pm Nice pick-up @lc. Are the weights and specific gravities the same between your two examples? Here are links to the couple previous examples that showed up on CCF (including yours, which is the second one): http://goccf.com/t/321413 http://goccf.com/t/352412 I'm thinking that @commems might be able to weigh in on this too. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
Earle42 Bedrock of the Community United States 10050 Posts	Posted 09/27/2021 8:55 pm I was born in PA (yes, we Pennsylvanians have a weird habit of calling our "state" by its initials) and so may be prejudiced. I have always really liked this larger version of our Commonwealth's seal that your token's REV displays. To me it just looks regal for some reason. Very nice token. I don't recall ever seeing one before. How much squash could a Sasquatch squash if a Sasquatch would squash squash? Download and read: Grading the graders Costly TPG ineptitude and No FG Kennedy halves https://ln5.sync.com/dl/7ca91bdd0/w...i3b-rbj9fir2 Report this Post to the Staff
Lucky Cuss Pillar of the Community United States 4883 Posts	Posted 09/27/2021 9:48 pm I'd have to dig out the one from a couple years ago to weigh it, so that'll have to wait until I come across it, but this latest one comes in at 6.95 grams. Seems like on all these, the tip of Penn's nose gets abraded. Colligo ergo sum Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 190660 Posts	Posted 09/28/2021 08:42 am Very nice! 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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