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Thanks Pat, this is fantastic. It's also strange that I was unaware of this yet have many of the titles mentioned in the footnotes. I love the online access to the BNJ with the caveat that it's easy to go in looking for something and come out, three days later, with lots of goodies and precious little idea of what you were looking for in the first place.
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I have it. My nephew has been helping me out with a few analyses, checking the specific gravity of some suspect pieces and he was using this as a reference point thinking it to be brass. When some of the figures didn't look right, he double checked on George and worked out that it was copper.
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This is the same piece, but I've only just realised that it isn't brass.
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Pat, I've just been looking at this:
and I'm starting to think that it isn't brass. It's the standard 25 mm and weighs in at 5 gr. Would it be possible to check the weight of your Scottish piece please? I'm thinking that I might have a gilded copper example. It is beautifully golden in tone by the way, just lousy lighting for a hurried shot.
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All I can say for sure is that the size is correct. My impression is that it is probably a restrike, assuming that di Giovanni's original matrices survived. The edges show little sign of knocks or scratches which I would look for on a medal of ghis age.
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A few more agriculturals
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Thanks Art. The curious thing with agricultural medals, in my experience, is that trying to buy one at auction can be hugely expensive. Selling can cost you almost as much. Unlike say, coin sales, the market does not have the same churn. A good quality coin like certain silver thalers can be bought and sold five times in two years, usually increasing in price. Agri medals sell once, and then aren't seen again for quite a few years. And these are relatively low prices we are talking about; particularly with regard to the French medals.
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This is a very heavy black lead cliché of the Cenotaph medal. It comes in at 320 grams and 81 mm and looks to have been made for mounting on a horizontal surface, if the amount of high relief wear is anything to go by.
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Thank you Pat. One day, I want to know how you did that.
Again.
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I've been preparing some medals for sale. Things I thought that I understood, but this one's a little different.
It's pretty much a basic French agricultural medal.
The obverse is a farmyard scene and the reverse bears the legend:
ENCOURAGEMENT A L'ÉLEVAGE
DÉPARTEMENT DU NORD
But just at 9 o/clock on the reverse is:
LE MEDAILLIER
There's also a signature between 3 & 4 o/clock on the obverse:
Albert E*********
The medal is edge marked Bronze with a Cornucopia poincon.
As far as I can work out, the medal was made by the Paris Mint for the company Le Medaillier, 13 Rue du Conservatoire, Paris
What I'd love to learn is a possible date and the namde of the sculptor.
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Tiny little scrap of silver 21mm, 2.5gr
I think this was a second enthronement for Leo, but he had so many titles.
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I think that they must have been listed as an auction and someone made a BIN offer the minute they came on line.
I would have paid substantially more, having been totally corrupted by this forum. And, let's face it, they are beautiful.
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I have mentioned here before that I can never resist the next pretty face, or a bargain.
This tends to clutter up the place a bit, so I started the medal cupboard. This is where all the little odds and ends went until "I had the time to do something with them".
Today, the child bride accidentally opened the cupboard and I have some work to do. Pronto!
This is box 1 of 7 (and I hope this link works)
http://s644.photobucket.com/user/bagerap/slideshow/The%20Medal%20Cupboard
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I am so sad to have missed this. I can only guess that they sold as soon as they were listed:
And a very low price in my opinion.
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Thank you Vern, coming from you that means a lot to me.
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A stupendously cheap acquisition, I'm pleased to say.
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Something similar, but no Erin Go Bragh
Not entirely sure that this will work as it's the first time I've tried this with a tablet.
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Metal detector find maybe?
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This is what I'm more used to:
I'm wondering if yours is a cast?
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I've been chasing the Columbus calendar for decades, but I've not seen one looking like that. What's the diameter?
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Interesting Pat that our two medals have differing rotations. Mine is medal aligned whereas yours seems to wander by +/- 40°
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This was given away as a circulation booster for the Paul Pry, a short lived (February 1830-March 1831) London newspaper.
It's nicely done, 38.5 mm, 16.7 gr and appears to be pewter. Is anyone able to confirm the metal please?
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It's no secret that I like an exhibition medal or two. They are a project for "later" and mostly unsorted, so I felt quite virtuous when I managed to corral some of them together. It's starting to look though that there's on hell of a lot of varieties to look out for.
Who is the medalist?
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This rather beautiful gilded copper medal was issued by Massonnet. The reverse is signed C Bonnefond but the signature on the obverse is illegible. The best I can discern is G V*****y. No match found in Forrer. I'm relying on your profound collective erudition. Please.