Medal - Lincoln Centennial Sunday American

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.

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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
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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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