Posted 05/01/2022 2:36 pm
Either unused Prize medals for a less known International Exposition (No doubt provincial responses to the 1900 Paris exposition and Olympic Games).
The back suggests they may have been dies for stamping medal blanks, or they were merely mounted into a wall from an exhibition building. After all most of these Exhibitions had temporary structures that were usually demolished after the Exposition and thus these medal things would have been recovered.
The panels are blank as often raw medals were minted from the galvanos and then the medals were inscribed with the winner's name after the prizes had been judged.
The back suggests they may have been dies for stamping medal blanks, or they were merely mounted into a wall from an exhibition building. After all most of these Exhibitions had temporary structures that were usually demolished after the Exposition and thus these medal things would have been recovered.
The panels are blank as often raw medals were minted from the galvanos and then the medals were inscribed with the winner's name after the prizes had been judged.
