Exonumia Auction - Maine Antique Digest

Medals of the American Numismatic SocietyLot 265INAUGURATION/ OF GEORGE/ WASHINGTON/ FIRSTPRESIDENT/ OF THE UNTIED STATES/ APRIL 30 TH / 1789.(H-I)266. WASHINGTON INAUGURAL SESQUICENTENNIALMEDAL, 1939. As above, but struck in bronze. Edge numbered“06” (of 95). Uncirculated with some scattered tiny dark spots onboth sides. (G)H68Lot 267267. CENTENNIAL MEDAL, 1958. 89mm. Bronze. Laura GardinFraser, Sc. (MACO). Choice Uncirculated. Original box &descriptive pamphlet. According to Ms. Fraser, the obverse “...shows the potential archeologist who having broken a stoneasunder, discovers a petrified animal form in one half and in theother, a perfect impression of it, or the die. Since tablets, coinsand other medals constitute the authority for the historical dataand our earliest civilizations expressed themselves in terms ofthe particular mythologies, on the reverse of the medal I used thePegasus as a symbol of the arts, to indicate as in a vision, thatnumismatics was a science from the era of Pegasus to the geophysicalyear of the harnessing of the atom. To the fore of thisvision are the artisans who are in the act of forging a medal usingsuch tools as are the basis of modern medal making.” (G)268. CENTENNIAL MEDAL, 1958. Same as above. Also ChoiceUncirculated, but without the box and pamphlet. (G)269. 125TH ANNIVERSARY MEDAL, 1983. 91 x 101mm. Bronze.Marcel Jovine, Sc. Struck by Stefano Johnson, Italy. ChoiceUncirculated. Serially numbered “243” (of 500) near the lowerright corner of the reverse. The obverse depicts a minter using thetechnique of hammer striking to produce a coin. Behind him arerepresentations of various pieces from the ANS collection.