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Medal - Lincoln Centennial Sunday American

Medal - Lincoln Centennial (Sunday American) - obverseMedal - Lincoln Centennial (Sunday American) - reverse

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Features

Location United States
Type Advertising medallions
Year 1909
Composition Aluminium
Diameter 32 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
579544
References Cunningham# 11-840A, 11-850A
Paul A. Cunningham; 2015. Lincoln’s Metallic Imagery: A Catalog and Price List of Lincoln Coins, Tokens, Medals, and Plaques. Michigan Exonumia Publishers, Tecumseh, Michigan, United States.

Commemorative issue

100th Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln

Obverse

Bust right

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
BORN FEB. 12TH, 1809.

Reverse

Legend

Script: Latin

Lettering:
LINCOLN CENTENNIAL MEDAL
"WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE.
WITH CHARITY FOR ALL.
WITH FIRMNESS IN THE
RIGHT AS GOD GIVES
US TO SEE THE RIGHT.
LET US STRIVE ON."
PRESENTED
BY THE
NEW YORK
Sunday American
THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG CO. NEWARK, N.J.

Edge

Plain

Mint

Whitehead & Hoag, Newark, United States (1892-1965)

Comments

11-840A - New York

11-850A - Boston

 

Issued contemporaneously with the Boston Sunday American variety, which are identical except for the name of the city. Both newspapers were owned by publishing mogul and politician William Randolph Hearst.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC References
1909  Cunningham# 11-840A
Paul A. Cunningham; 2015. Lincoln’s Metallic Imagery: A Catalog and Price List of Lincoln Coins, Tokens, Medals, and Plaques. Michigan Exonumia Publishers, Tecumseh, Michigan, United States.
1909  Cunningham# 11-850A
Paul A. Cunningham; 2015. Lincoln’s Metallic Imagery: A Catalog and Price List of Lincoln Coins, Tokens, Medals, and Plaques. Michigan Exonumia Publishers, Tecumseh, Michigan, United States.

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