#5587247 - 04/09/12 09:53 AM
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bsshog40
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Looks like some nice Newps over the wknd!!
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#5588997 - 04/09/12 11:05 PM
Re: Post Your Most Recent Acquisition
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brg5658
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Registered: 01/12/11
Posts: 2046
Loc: Minnesota
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Heraldic Art Medal #6
"Pioneer Inventions"
Attachments
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#5589298 - 04/10/12 03:54 AM
Re: Post Your Most Recent Acquisition
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nunfa0
The Post-man always rings twice. Uhm... ring ring?
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#5589321 - 04/10/12 05:27 AM
Re: Post Your Most Recent Acquisition
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leeg
Is there a way to change this?
Chatzilla I'm not.
If you have a dream about out-posting me, you better wake up and apologize.
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An eBay win, sellers image: 
WISCONSIN TERRITORIAL CENTENNIAL 1936
Medal commemorates 100th anniversary as territory, not State¬hood, Wisconsin having been admitted to Union May 29, 1848. Legislature created Wisconsin Centennial, Inc. 1933 with $500 appropriation, later increased. Celebration was state-wide, highlight being presentation of pageant, "Centennial Cavalcade of Wisconsin," in stadium of University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 27-July 5, 1936; "witnessed by at least 75,000 spectators."
This was official medal, sponsored and designed by Commission; 1,500 pieces struck in Bronze; sold for $1.
Obv. Capitol building, clouds behind; at base on small ribbon 1936; smaller edifice to l.; at base, on small ribbon 1836; above all, around Wisconsin Territorial Centennial; below all is prone animal (badger?) on dotted line.
Rev. Eagle in upper center panel; to l. 19 / June / 27, to r. 36 / July / 5; above at border Madison; below panel Official / Wisconsin / Centennial / Celebration; stars all around at border.
HK-696 Bronze. 37mm., Scarce.
This is the second one of these in the original holder that is in my collection.
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As reverence for the past dies out in the breasts of a generation, so likewise patriotism wanes. In the measure that the love of the history of the past dies, so likewise do the higher aspirations for the future. To keep the flower of patriotism alive, we must keep the memory of the past vividly in mind. Ezra Meeker of Oregon Trail fame.
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#5589808 - 04/10/12 11:54 AM
Re: Post Your Most Recent Acquisition
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BKW
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Registered: 04/26/11
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Another Heraldic Art Medal (No. 8). Civil War Centennial 1861-1961. NGC MS68. Sterling Silver.
 
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#5589865 - 04/10/12 12:20 PM
Re: Post Your Most Recent Acquisition
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brg5658
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#5589919 - 04/10/12 12:50 PM
Re: Post Your Most Recent Acquisition
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SkyMan
FACT if I stop posting, trillions and trillions of transistors would be out of work.
Registered: 09/21/06
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Loc: Northern California
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Some sweet looking coins and medals guys! 
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#5589982 - 04/10/12 01:22 PM
Re: Post Your Most Recent Acquisition
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dooly
I was posting here when you were in diapers.
Registered: 02/23/07
Posts: 3471
Loc: Northumberland UK
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Got this today from france ..
sellers picture
my scan ? don't think it is cleaned .. from his picture i was sure it was
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