Worlds Columbian Exposition Augustus Saint-Gaudens .999 Silver Medal, Choice Unc

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Worlds Columbian Exposition Augustus Saint-Gaudens .999 Silver Medal, Choice Unc:
$315.00

Themedal comes in a blue velvet-lined, silver-color cardboard presentation box anda COPY of the descriptive pamphlet of issue. Also included: original 4¾” x 4¼” plasticpresentation holder; a COPY of the full-page newspaper advertisement “Best Newsin Years for Coin Collectors”, Coin World,September 22, 1961, pg. 23. (2 pages, 8.5”x11”, half-page shown/listed) and aCOPY of the brochure/advertisement “The Magnificent Six” (2 pages, 8.5”x11”).

“The Magnificent Six” was a medallic seriesof medals created to honor/commemorated the great designers and engravers ofnumismatic history including: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Victor D. Brenner,Charles E. Barber, Christian Gobrecht, Euaenetos and James B. Longacre. Themedals were designed and issued by coin dealer Toivo Johnson (1913-1973) ofBangor, Maine and the dies engraved/executed by Robert Stephan Schabel(1909-1995). The medals were struck by The Metal Arts Company of Rochester, NY,in 76-millimeter diameter sizes in .999 Silver and Bronze. The medals werestruck and issued between 1961 and 1964. The Augustus Saint-Gaudens medal was the Firstissued in the series.

Allsix medals in the coin designer series, as shown together in this listing (in theorder that they were issued), are for reference and information purposes onlyand are not part of this listing.

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I have a large collection of bronze bas-reliefs, plaques,medallions, and medals that I will be listing this month by the followingsculptors: Chester Beach, Victor D. Brenner, Anthony de Francisci, JohnFlanagan, James Earle Fraser, Laura Gardin Fraser, Daniel Chester French, HenryHering, Anna Vaughan Hyatt-Huntington, Charles Keck, Julio Kilenyi, FrederickMacMonnies, Hermon A. MacNeil, Paul Manship, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Louis St.Gaudens, and many others, including prominent French sculptors/engravers!

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