Posted 07/28/2010 11:35 am
It is difficult to say where any of this type of item comes from. There are and have been MANY MANY private mints in this country making private meals for promotions, businesses, organizations etc and a set of the presidents has always been a very popular subject and to a large extent they all tend to run to this same type of format. Most of them do not identify the mint of issue or who they were made for. I bet someone could collect nothing but these President medals and do so for years. It also would not surprise me to find that there are more than fifty different sets of the Presidents out there. The only way you could approximately date the sets is by who the last president is in the set. Unfortunately as far as I know no one has ever done such a collection or research so there is no reference to check.
RPT may be right about this piece, but the Franklin mint usually does include their mintmark on their products, and if the were made for Shell oil I would expect to see Shell's name on them somewhere. The oil companies were responsible for a lot of medal giveaways (including several Presidential series) and promotions, but typically they did identify themselves on their giveaways.
RPT may be right about this piece, but the Franklin mint usually does include their mintmark on their products, and if the were made for Shell oil I would expect to see Shell's name on them somewhere. The oil companies were responsible for a lot of medal giveaways (including several Presidential series) and promotions, but typically they did identify themselves on their giveaways.
Edited by Conder101
07/28/2010 11:42 am
07/28/2010 11:42 am
