Here's a couple nice medals with a Large Cent tie in. The first is a medal featuring Joseph Mickely, the so-called father of large cent collecting. I was boppin' thru a show around 96 and a medal dealer had this in his case for the princely sum of 20 bucks! It now lives with me .

The second is a David Rittenhouse mint medal struck circa 1874. Not sure if the dealer thought it was a modern restrike, but I only paid 40 bucks for it. A poor photo, hi-relief is tough with the digital. I'll have to re-shoot some day.

For those who care to, there's a bunch of photos and some of my articles on my personal web space, feel free to browse and download what you can use.

Nice medals and photos. Thanks for sharing.

Very nice coppers

Photographing high relief medals and such requires that you set the camera to "manual" mode, and use a larger number aperature like f.8 or f.11. When I'm using a dedicated macro lense on a digital SLR, I set aperature to at least f.16, usually higher. I've taken some at f.32. The larger number settings will bring all of the detail into focus.

heh. the second one, at first glance, looks like chevy chase.

Excellent medals. Great finds.

Really does -- but really nice pieces.