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Medal - The Lincoln Coin Memorial Sudbury, Ontario

Medal - The Lincoln Coin Memorial (Sudbury, Ontario) - obverseMedal - The Lincoln Coin Memorial (Sudbury, Ontario) - reverse

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Features

Location Canada
Type Coin replicas
Year 1965
Composition Bronze
Weight 24 g
Diameter 38.5 mm
Thickness 3 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
561713
References TC# 612205
TokenCatalog.com (http://tokencatalog.com)

Obverse

Bust of President Abraham Lincoln facing right, surrounded by the standard US one cent motto.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
IN GOD WE TRUST
LIBERTY
1965
CAN ART DIES

Reverse

Image of the Lincoln Memorial surrounded by the standard US one cent reverse, with added legend below the memorial.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
UNITED STATES of AMERICA
E PLURIBUS
UNUM
THE LINCOLN COIN MEMORIAL
SUDBURY, CANADA
TS-BC-ER
ONE CENT

Edge

Plain

Mint

Lombardo Mint, Sherbrooke (and Mississauga since 2005), Canada (1955-date)

Comments

The former Numismatic Park in Sudbury, Ontario hosted replicas of five coins - a Canadian Nickel, a Canadian cent from 1965, an American Lincoln Memorial cent, an American Kennedy half dollar, and a commemorative Canadian $20 gold coin from 1967. Sadly, four of these have since been dismantled. For more on "The Canadian Centennial Numismatic Park" (see Theodore Arthur "Ted" Szilva).
The original Big Nickel & the Numismatic Park was (mostly) privately funded by Ted Szilva (TS), with partners (BC) Bruno Cavallo and (ER) mentioned on the reverse of this medal. Cecil Fielding (CF) and John Goodearle (JG) are mentioned on other medals that were sold to help raise funds for the projects.

According to Sudbury Numismatics - First Edition 1995 - by Jeff Fournier (page 17); "Medal orders poured in from around the world; but Americans who had requested them were in for a surprise! As reported in September of 1968 in Canada Coin News, Lincoln medals which had been sent to the U.S. were being confiscated at the border and turned over to the U.S. Secret Service for disposal. It seemed the Numismatic Park had been violating a section of the U.S. code which prohibits persons from creating any object resembling a U.S. coin, or having such an object in their possession."

There are three known compositions according to Jeff Fournier;

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1965 

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