Some rare medals 0

[1946Hamm]

Here are some hard to find 1901 Pan-Am award medals in my collection. They are all R-5 and there are 41 sterling silver known, 31 Gilt bronze known and 32 Bronze known. They are seldom seen and I think they are beautiful. Herman McNeil the designer of the standing liberty quarter designed them for the 1901 Pan-American expo in Buffalo N.Y.

[RWB]

Very nice collection! How about enlarging one so all can see the excellent design.

[1946Hamm]

Here you go.

[RWB]

Notice that the winner's name was punched into an inset which fit in a space on the Bison side die. This was a good way to avoid the occasionally sloppy manually engraved names found on many award medals. The same "inset recipient die" approach was used on the Columbian Exposition medals made by Scovill for the Commission.

Edited February 3 by RWB

[Just Bob]

That is a very nice group of medals. I love the designs, particularly the way they stand out on the silver piece.

How long has it taken to find all of these examples?

[1946Hamm]

On 2/4/2024 at 9:02 AM, Just Bob said:

That is a very nice group of medals. I love the designs, particularly the way they stand out on the silver piece.

How long has it taken to find all of these examples?

Probably 10 or so years. They are seldom found.

[RWB]

It's been my observation that gold plated medals seem to always have defects. What have you noticed?