Comments on: Obama Presidential Medal Designs Unveiled https://www.coinnews.net/2016/06/28/obama-presidential-medal-designs/ CoinNews delivers the latest World and US coin news Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:14:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Seth Riesling https://www.coinnews.net/2016/06/28/obama-presidential-medal-designs/#comment-168917 Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:14:44 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=58648#comment-168917 Robert –

You are totally on point. And those early US Mint Peace medals, even in bronze, bring a small fortune at auctions! Early US Mint medals in gold & silver were given to VIPs of the time, including visiting royalty & heads of state. I don’t know why in recent years the US Mint hasn’t bid on producing the official inaugural presidential medals, except possibly due to their full schedule of production with an average of more than 200 products available in any given year recently. The top private Mints have picked up the slack & do a great job usually. I really like these two Obama designs that will be struck by the US Mint.

Happy collecting!

-NumisDudeTX

]]> By: Robert https://www.coinnews.net/2016/06/28/obama-presidential-medal-designs/#comment-168908 Thu, 30 Jun 2016 21:11:10 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=58648#comment-168908 Seth, you are quite correct. The presidential medals the U.S. Mint produces have a long and rich history dating back to George Washington. First, they were considered as peace medals, I believe, the most famous of which is the Thomas Jefferson medal. Copies of these were given to Lewis & Clark to pass along to Native American tribes they encountered on their expedition. Since Abraham Lincoln’s terms, they have been struck with the same purpose as they are now… to acknowledge and commemorate our presidents. I love these designs!

]]> By: SalivateMetal https://www.coinnews.net/2016/06/28/obama-presidential-medal-designs/#comment-168878 Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:32:31 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=58648#comment-168878 As much as I loathe the current president’s policies and for the first time ever, I have little respect for a sitting president, the medals themselves are well designed and at least by the artwork bear a striking resemblance of Obama.

]]> By: Seth Riesling https://www.coinnews.net/2016/06/28/obama-presidential-medal-designs/#comment-168798 Wed, 29 Jun 2016 23:26:09 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=58648#comment-168798 Can’t wait to add these 2 US Mint presidential series bronze medals to my collection even though they are not the official inauguration medals for Obama’s two terms . I have both of the official Obama inauguration medals which were not struck by the US Mint (struck by a private Mint in USA at request of Obama’s official inauguration committees which has been the case for all recent presidents). Don’t confuse these in this article with the official inauguration medals. There are a number of books that tell the difference & history of them.

-NumisDudeTX

]]> By: art https://www.coinnews.net/2016/06/28/obama-presidential-medal-designs/#comment-168773 Wed, 29 Jun 2016 18:53:55 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=58648#comment-168773 Cant wait to get one!

]]> By: Lbrewer42 https://www.coinnews.net/2016/06/28/obama-presidential-medal-designs/#comment-168765 Wed, 29 Jun 2016 18:01:06 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=58648#comment-168765 Hey… a way to turn this around! When the mint loses money on these and puts them on a bargain basement sale, then someone should buy them all, counterstamp them with a sickle & hammer/Benghazi Butcher/Traitor to the US etc. and sell them on ebay for a large profit.

]]> By: RonK. https://www.coinnews.net/2016/06/28/obama-presidential-medal-designs/#comment-168760 Wed, 29 Jun 2016 17:33:17 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=58648#comment-168760 Correction… medal, Thank God not a coin!!

]]> By: RonK. https://www.coinnews.net/2016/06/28/obama-presidential-medal-designs/#comment-168759 Wed, 29 Jun 2016 17:32:03 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=58648#comment-168759 Lbrewer42, you are so correct! The Mint will lose $$$ on this joke
of a coin!

]]> By: Lbrewer42 https://www.coinnews.net/2016/06/28/obama-presidential-medal-designs/#comment-168755 Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:57:52 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=58648#comment-168755 Great… so the Benghazi Butcher gets pout onto an official US medal. Its a record, the first bon-US born person to be in the White House is honored on a medal. But don;pt forget the communist sickle and hammer.

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