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cptbilly
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 Posted Yesterday 7:05 pm
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Oregon Centennial (1859 - 1959 ) Roseburg, OR, "Souvenir Money" - Trade Token - 50 cents
Obverse
Two concentric rings.
In the outer ring, flanked to the left by five-pointed star, the caption: 100th ANNIVERSARY 1859 CELEBRATION 1959 OREGON.
In the inner ring, factory smokestacks, possibly lumber or paper mills, are bellowing. Below, a Conestoga wagon pulled by oxen. Above the oxen, a whip is wielded by an unseen driver. Ahead of the wagon team, a woodcutter under a pine tree. A horseback rider is also under the tree. This scene is above a stylized banner with the words: FRONTIER OF THE FUTURE.
In the center are symbols of transportation: a cargo ship, freight train, and a passenger bus. A prominent fish out of water-- a salmon -- leaps near a dam's spillway. The falling water interlaces with power transmission line stanchions symbolizing the state's hydroelectric energy from the Bonneville Dam. In the background, a commercial airliner passes high above the unmistakeable profile of Mt. Hood.
Overlapping both rings is an Oregon State Seal.
Reverse
Lettering:
TIMBER CAPITAL OF THE NATION
Good for 50˘ in trade at any cooperative business or redeemable at face value at the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce until 3 P.M. Thursday, September 17, 1959 Roseburg, ORE
• SOUVENIR CENTENNIAL MONEY •
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cptbilly
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Posted Yesterday 11:52 am
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I submiited a coin & paid for express service on the grading tier. Submission was acknowledged on 1/23/25 as an Express order. Status Updates from the NGC site:
1/27/25: " Grading, Encapsulation, Imaging"
1/30/25: " Grading / Quality Control "
As of 2/26, status still shows "Grading / Quality Control" -- so it has been in the grading / QC queue for 18 business days.
I plan to contact them next week if no news today or tomorrow. . .
Asking those with NGC submittal experiences if this seems normal. Thank you.
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1953 Bronze Italian Holocaust Memorial Medal
 
 
Google Translate offered up "Will Remember" for the lettering on the bottom of the reverse; No results from the tablet lettering on the obverse.
Obverse is attributed to Emilio Monti --and has his signature "E. Monti" and the reverse to Ezio Saita, 500 pieces, struck in 1953, by the Milan-based Stefano Johnson, Inc. The Cincinnati Judaica Fund and The Center for Holocaust & Humanity Education's Collections Database shows the same attributions:https://www.cincinnatijudaicafund.c...tion_id/2218
The name "Ezio Saita" appears in the January, 1950, edition of "Numismatic Literature," a quarterly publication of The American Numismatic Society, in the "Medals" section, under a listing for an article published by "A. Pagani" in Revista Italiana di Numismatica e Scienze Affini. The listing reads:
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Pagani publishes two medals issued on the occasion of the centennial celebration of the revolutionary events of 1848 in Milan. One is a production of the Fratelli Lorioli and the other of the Stabilimento Johnson. The former, engraved by Tosini, bears a scene of a barricade on the obverse and an inscription on the reverse. The second, engraved by Ezio Saita, bears a reproduction of the principal figure from the "Monumento del Grandi per le cinque giontata."
That's as far down the Ezio Saita rabbit hole I'm willing to go. [ NNP was the source for the ANS quarterly ] |
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cptbilly
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Posted 02/26/2025 7:49 pm
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The 1988 Medal of the US Capitol Historical Society features authors of The Federalist : Alexander Hamilton; James Madison; and John Jay, as depicted by sculptor Eugene Daub, on the obverse. On the reverse, Daub utilizes a flowing simplicity to portray the act of ratification and the historical record and chronology of the ratification process by the original thirteen States, thus giving life to the Constitution.
 
Like the Franklin medal above, it is " An Official Medal of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution." [MACO # 1987 - 466]. 3 inches, Bronze, 7.35 oz. The 35 page pamphlet shipped with this packaging of the medal includes a lively yet condensed history of the Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist debate over ratification; the role 85 essays published in NYC newspapers from October 1787 to May 1788-- later gathered in a two-volume set released in 1788 and now widely known as The Federalist -- played in swaying public opinion; and lastly, a chronology of the December, 1787, to May, 1790 path to ratification.
If you're unfamiliar with the breadth of sculptor Daub's work, see his namesake website: https://eugenedaub.com/
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Posted 02/26/2025 1:13 pm
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Commissioned by the American Numismatic Society for the 1909 Centennial of Lincoln's birth, this 2.5 inch bronze MACO medal was produced by French-American sculptor Jules Edouard Roiné (1857 - 1916) . It has a smooth edge. A stylized "MACO" logo appears on the obverse, adjacent to the artist's signature and the word "COPYRIGHT."
 
 
Some copies of the Roiné medal were issued with a book titled The Lincoln Centennial Medal (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908).
The Lincoln Centennial Medal, by Jules Edouard Roiné provides a detailed description of the Lincoln Centennial Medal. The book was published in 1908; a copy of the medal was included. The author and others provide a comprehensive overview of the medal, including its design, composition, and historical significance. Reprints of the text can be found on-line for around $20.00
In February 2023, a CCF member shared his acquisition of a small silver version of the medal: http://goccf.com/t/440128
Roiné's wikipedia entry documents the sculptor's background quite well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules...d_Roin%C3%A9
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Posted 02/26/2025 11:38 am
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US Mint issued Presidential Medal. Bronze. 3 inches. Obverse features Gilroy Roberts' 1954 portrait. Reverse "Atoms For Peace" featuring Thomas Crawford's statue of Freedom from the dome of the US Capitol surrounded by allegorical figures representing applications that might one day benefit from atomic energy, including agriculture, manufacturing, commerce, medicine, and science. The reverse was done by US Mint engraver Englehardus von Hebel, and includes the date of Eisenhower's second inaugural, January 20, 1957.
 
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Posted 02/25/2025 3:35 pm
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The Alaska Purchase Centennial Medal [MACO # 1965-123] was sculpted by Rolf Beck. The obverse portrait of Secretary of State William H. Seward was likely based on the photo below, taken from the Library of Congress photo archives. The reverse was designed by Major Robert D. Vodicka ( See the flyer for full details ). Examples of this 2.75" bronze medal are easy to come by in the secondary market. According to the MACO archives, it was also struck in a 1.5" version.
 
 
About the designer of the medal's reverse: From the Anchorage Daily News, December 20, 1963:
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An Elmendorf Air Force Base major assigned to the Alaskan Air Command has submitted the winning entry in the Alaska Centennial Commission's emblem contest and will receive a cash prize of $1,000. . .Maj. Robert Vodicka, who has been in Alaska two and a half years, is an architect whose hobbies include design work and history. He combined the two hobbies in executing the centennial emblem. "For a centennial emblem, though, history is the most important," he said here today.
In 1969, Alaska's Department of Economic Development offered the medal above for $5.00 each, as reported in the April 24, 1969, Anchorage Daily Times. |
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Posted 02/25/2025 2:08 pm
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By the way, did you find any information until what year the date was used?
Did not come across that information. It's a pity the people who bought out Whitehead & Hoag -- Bastian Brothers --ordered the factory to be sold and any unusable machinery, dies or tools to be scrapped. W&H kept records of every item they ever made and these records were ordered destroyed. We'll probably never know how many of the Essay medals were struck or how many versions exist. |
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