Wells Fargo & Co's Express Western Division Medal

There are some that were made in all silver given to employees. They are fetching a nice price and only one ever known in gold.

Thanks Spence. Really appreciate having this information shared in the open.

I did a lot of reading about this last night Oh I should say early morning I found it in several places. ebay does have it up for sale in silver and some cleaned there's ugh. I sent you 2 emails about the prices. Stacks Bowers has one coming up for auction in the spring and silver And they're starting bid is a 100 for now They're probably looking for the price I sent you. There is only 1 gold 1 that they've learned about that was ever made And it has not surfaced. There are fake ones out there not real and not made by the company (the gold one). Wells Fargo had them privately made by a private designer and they cannot find who it was through documents who designer and made it, wells fargo didn't use the mint.

Interesting medal - I don't recall seeing it previously. Thanks for posting and starting the discussion!

Here's a related Wells Fargo/Jon J. Valentine piece from the 1890s:

- 1892-93 World's Columbian Exposition & Wells Fargo

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The only WF medals (active and sold) I've seen on ebay have been the silver 1902 50th anniversary ones that were doled out after Valentine died in 1901. Those are well-themed, have a complicated design and are very appealing. Seems those medals have a pretty good survival rate as they do pop up online now and then.

I'm pretty sure, now more than ever, that the copper WF medal I posted here was issued following the banking panic of 1893 due to the "times of pressure and hardship" mentioned in the verbiage on one side. A lot of banks failed during that time period. A "thank you" from management actually meant something back in those days, too!

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When I first seen this posted before researching I was going to say it had to do with the railways.lol
Ironically I was going over some stuff left in a bin from the state of my parents and there's a Kodak real with slides from Utah which are all the trains passages ,trains themselves, times/dates/train#/name/destination, the car numbers I guess you wanna call them etcetera there from 1952 to 1968 the very extraordinary they're one of the kind and I'm going to donate them to a place that save things like a museum for trains indusyry/rsileays and stuff like that I'm having a difficult Time trying to locate just one that is infamous that won't go out of business and will stay around for a long time. From the appraiser first the estate we hired he claims it valuable part if history a one if a kind. On the back of that Medal shows most of the stops that is on this kodak real and stations (they'requite beautiful). It's just a uncanny how inwas looking at that when soon after this topic came up. Oh well enough yapping

Very nice!