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Help? Picked This Up At A Yard Sale (Id: Late 20th Century Shooting Medal)

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 Posted 06/21/2009  03:46 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Texas collector to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I got a call from my parents; they were at a yard sale and said the guy had some coins. So I got up and went to the sale, long story short, I bought a lot of about 40 coins for $25. (There was quite a bit of silver in it) Not a really extra great deal, but not a bad one.
Anyway, included besides American coins were a 1963 cinco centavos Mexican coin, a 1966 5 centimes coin from "Republique Francaise," and this MEDAL:

Help?--Picked-This-Up-At-A-Yard-Sale-Id:-Late-20th-Century-Shooting-Medal

Help?--Picked-This-Up-At-A-Yard-Sale-Id:-Late-20th-Century-Shooting-Medal

My local coin dealer said it was Davey (spelling?) Crokett with an Indian, but he didn't know much more about it. He said it was probably brass-plated steel. Anyone know what this is exactly?
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 Posted 06/21/2009  03:53 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ratman4762 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not really a coin, more of a medal or something. Interesting! Anything on the reverse side?
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"Not really a coin"

Whoops! I knew that. That was a typo! :)

Nope, nothing on the reverse, nada. I may post a pic anyway just for the curious-minded.
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 Posted 06/21/2009  04:18 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Texas collector to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here's the reverse, in all its blankness.


Help?--Picked-This-Up-At-A-Yard-Sale-Id:-Late-20th-Century-Shooting-Medal
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Schützenfestmedal of Austrian, Swiss or German origin. Flintlocksystem should indicate somewhere in between 1790. But metal of this medal is younger than that, not older then 70 years approximately.
Frankfurt, Innsbruck do have yearly schützenfests, where contestants can match their rifle skills.
Numbered medal, highly Austrian-type lettering. Torch could be military scutcheon of army-unit.
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Yeah, there's no way that's Davy Crokett and an Indian.

It's definitely some kind of an award medal for shooting flintlock rifles.

My suggestion is to check trophy places with online catalogues, and see if they have anything like it. I don't think it's all that old because it's kind of generic-looking.
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Thanks!

It could have been made in 1989, since it says "89" on it. I think it's more interesting as an award medal than a commemorative anyway.
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Yep, it says "(C) 1989", so 1989 is it's earliest date. It's a generic award medal, of the kind you could go down to your local trophy engraving shop and purchase today; if there's such a shop nearby, go down and ask if they have any medals like that in stock.

There's space on the obverse to engrave the gun club or event organizer's name if they wanted to, and plenty of space on the reverse for engraving name, date and event.

It's probably made of solid brass. If it were plated steel, it would stick to a magnet. Test it and see.
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