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  1. I love this piece. Had they any sense, the wine merchants would have been the Premeir Corps, but that's just common sense from my point of view.
  2. It appears to have been rolled after it left the mint. Note the lack of reeding, rolled edge, and reduced diameter. Its worth a quarter.
  3. Wow. That die could not have last much longer, or some unlucky guy was holding it together by hand as they struck the medals.
  4. To answer Roger's second question, the Romans did produce medals. To reply to the topic at hand--cool medal!
  5. I think the odd look is the lighting and incorrect white balance. But, it should be examined by an expert since the photograph has its own problems.
  6. bill

    need help

    You need to experiment with your lighting setup and make sure the slab is clean. You may need a black tent around your setup to eliminate stray light. Once you have the lighting the way you want, if you have a relatively current varsion of Photoshop, use the Exposure adjustment and make small corrections to the gamma and offset settings to acheive an effect more like you see.
  7. And I thought Ebay now bans numerical grades unless the TPG service is registered with them?
  8. Eglit lists the following pieces as having been documented as elongated at the Exposition: Indian Head cents, copper nickel cents, Flying Eagle cents, 2 cents, 3 cent nickel, shield nickel, Liberty Head nickel, Liberty Head dime, Barber dime, Liberty Seated quarter, Barber half, U.S. trade dollar, Canada cent, Canada 5ยข silver, British half penny, British penny, German 3 mark silver, Hawaiian half dollar. There may be others recorded since Eglit's work. Of course I also have the official medal over struck on a large cent:
  9. I have posted aluminum medals up to now. Elongating coins started at the Columbian Exposition and they rolled a large number of coins. I have started a type set for my own collection. An 1876 Indian Head Cent: An 1892 Liberty Head nickel: and an 1892 Barber dime:
  10. I love pictoral tokens. My latest acquistion is a July 4, 1938 "piece of eight" thrown from the "Pirate Ship Float." They were good for 50 cents at area merchants.
  11. The Tercentenary Conference medals are fairly common (i.e. you can readily find one if you want one). I see them listed in the $10 to $25 range.
  12. Every now and then something comes along to still tickle my fancy. I had to pay too much, but I could not resist this mule: The California state seal side was produced by Hanson in Chicago for a California Midwinter souvenir medal. The Royal Safety Deposit Vaults side is not signed by Hanson, but the die was used for a "good for one dollar towards your first year's rent" token issued by the Royal Trust bank in Chicago. The "World's Fair" referred to on the medal would be the World's Columbian Exposition. The Royal Trust medal had to have been produced by Hanson as well. I do not know why the two pieces were muled as I cannot find any reference to Royal Trust operating in California, While it probably has no relation to the Midwinter Exposition, it is still an unusual piece.
  13. How could it be artificially toned when NGC says it is MS-68?
  14. My only question would be the rim ding around 9 o'clock on the obverse. I don't slab coins, so I can't say that it is a problem for certain. I would agree that it does not appear to be circulated, but I suspect the grade is hard to predict given that ding.
  15. Nice medal. All the exposition award medals are collectible. Their prices are not outrageous, although none are cheap. Great medal, even better being engraved. In general, medals were awarded unengraved in bronze. Recipients could pay to have them engraved and plated if the award was gold or silver. Actual practices varied from exposition to exposition. I think the $300 to $500 estimate range is a good guess for your medal. I don't know that it warrants a safe deposit box, but it does warrant care. The award medals are heavy and easily damaged if dropped or mishandled. Yours appears as if it is gold-plated? The fact that your grandfather valued it and passed it to you adds additional significance.
  16. That is what I am using. Once in a while I get a focusing problem, but another try and it passes. You could switch to manual focus. But, if you mean there is an aberation in the glass that screws up your focus, then you definitely need to get another piece of glass. Maybe another picture frame would have a better piece of glass. All the glass is doing is aligning light rays with the lens to create an effect. The glass should not create out of focus areas unless in has a really extreme aberation. I would guess that is possible, but I think you would be able to see it. I do have problems at times if I get a reflection on the glass and my autofocus centers on the reflection. I use a black curtain to prevent that.
  17. No need to argue, they are all great bank notes. Fantastic.
  18. This post could go several places, but since I collect medals, it has to go in exonumia. The US Mint struck medals in a government exhibit at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. There are records of two unique pieces struck on a large cent and one struck on a silver dollar. Thanks to a good friend and dealer who specializes in Columbia Exposition material, I was able to acquire the overstruck large cent for my collection. Needless to say, I jumped at the chance when it was presented to me. There are other medals overstruck on US coins, but those are done outside the mint by private operators. This piece had to have been struck by US Mint staff in the mint exhibit at the exposition with US mint equpment and US mint dies.
  19. Nice choice for calibration. Some one was thinking.
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