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Here's a Salem Mass 1626-1926 medal

An unlisted commemorative pin from Medford, Massachussets. Medford is north of Boston on the Mystic River. The pin shows a ship under construction in dry dock. The commemorative inscription is on the reverse.

 

I love the image of the ship on dry-dock. How big is the pin?

Quite similar to the NH state seal depicting the USS Raleigh under construction at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard ca.1775.

1. what's Peabody?

2. why isn't it listed?

Cool pins, bill. I never noticed them in this thread before.

That image would be the 1830s monument memorializing the Minutemen of Danvers (Peabody was part of Danvers) who were killed during the Battle of Menotomy. Originally located at the intersection of Main and Washington Streets, the monument was moved to the corner of Washington and Sewall Streets in 1961.



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Aonother unlisted pinback, this one from Peabody.

Thanks YeOlde, you have some nice coinage on your website.

Fun all around.

G'day !!

Rev.

Nice Medals all. Really like Arminius GIIII and constanius collection of 17th & 18 C, amazing pieces.

Got this one recently, the large silver 1911 GV, 51mm and close to 3 tr oz for near spot price.

Thanks for sharing everyone. Reverse image in next reply.

Nice grab. Love getting interesting items for melt

I saw it first in a Stack's auction, estimated at $300 but it did not sell. Then it was offered on Ebay, where to my utter surprise I won it for $40.50. I had placed a somewhat higher bid, with no real expectation of win it.

 

I have seen bronze modern restrikes, stuck from new dies go for more.

 

I guess it is always worth a punt because you never know what happens in an auction!

Beautiful piece. at an unbelievable price! Congrats on the Ebay score

Thanks Art,

Apologies for the delay, missed the notice..

  I do a lot of metal detecting, found an unauthenticated CC coin and that's what sparked my interest in the series.

Also have recovered many period counterfeit coins, from George II Brits to Mid 19th C US issues.

 I'd guess the combination of these is why I'm always on the lookout for nice repros.

Not interested in the common 'Tourist' pieces, but the ones that are well made and considered collectable by some.

  I also have an 'Evans' restrike of the 1788 Mass Half Cent. from what I've gathered he was a coin dealer from Springfield Ma,

and struck these pieces in the 1940s. Don't know how many were produced, I have not seen any other than mine. Note the small 'E' above North Star, Like the 'S' near the rim of the CC. 

                                Best wishes to you,   Herbie

Big Walker, I'll take it at spot

Obverse

CONTINENTAL DOLLAR RESTRIKES an HK 852a Sold for $173 in 2008


Photos courtesy of Stack's Rare Coins, New York, NY
Obv. Within circle, sun dial, sun rays to upper left; below, Mind Your / Business; within this circle and an outer one, Fugio to l and the sun; outside, around, Continental Currency; below, 1776; beaded border.
Rev. We / are / One within small center circle; between this and second circle, American • Congress •; rays; outside, around, a chain of circles, on each the name of one of the 13 original states; beaded border.
HK-852 Silver. 38mm. Only 50 struck, according to John W. Haseltine.
HK-852a Silver. Bashlow restrike. Small S on reverse.
HK-852b Gold. 40.5mm to 41mm. 56.8 grams.
HK-853 Copper. Slightly less than 4mm. thick.
HK-853a Bronze. Bashlow restrike.
HK-854 White Metal. Thickness, 3mm.
HK-854a White Metal. Bowers restrike.
HK-855 Pewter. Approximately 4mm. thick. Sometimes listed as tin.
HK-856 Lead. Slightly more than 2mm. thick.
HK-856a Goldine. Bashlow restrike.
NOTE: In 1962, 7,200 White Metal restrikes were issued by the current owners of the dies, Empire Coin Company, owned by Q. David Bowers. The medals were minted by John Pinches & Sons, Ltd., of England. Empire Coin die varieties can be attributed by a small die gauge above the O of Continental in the denticles and a diagonal scratch below the C in Continental. Empire Coin Company then sold the dies to Robert Bashlow, who produced 2,000 Silver, 3,000 Goldine and 5,000 Bronze restrikes, together with "a few trial pieces in various metals." He later announced that "dies have already been donated to the Smithsonian Institution..." Thickness of these White Metal restrikes is approximately 2 1/2mm. as compared with 3mm. thickness of Dickeson piece, No. 854. Silver restrikes by Bashlow have small S on reverse and are approximately 2 3/4 mm. in thickness (no S on No. 852); Goldine and Bronze restrikes are approximately 2 1/2 thick. Bashlow restrikes are identified by a die gauge between the C and O in Continental.

I picked up a decent example of the 2000 silvers struck. Interesting Piece.

More info: Breen assigned #972 for the half cent and #973 to the 1¢ restrike in his Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins, and supposedly made the comment: "these were struck sometime after WWII by Springfield, Massachusetts coin dealer Henry Evans in the late 1940's or early 1950's" and "examples are scarcely seen and seldom offered at auction". The restrike was supposedly listed in the Red Book through the 1960's and is highly collectable copy. Sometimes listed as "Evans" rather than the correct Evanson attribution. The single set of each of the dies (one cent and half cents were struck) had been defaced and destroyed years ago.\

Here's some pix of my halfcent...

Thanks for posting, i picked up a lovely red HalfCent for a song, not much info available on these,

though i'm sure they will appreciate in value. Best wishes, Herbie.