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| #568 | 1909, March 4th, US Mint Congressional Medal #639 Commemorating Congressional Resolution of March 4th 1909 for ORVILLE WRIGHT and WILBUR WRIGHT IN RECOGNITION AND APPRECIATION OF THEIR ABILITY COURAGE AND SUCCESS IN NAVIGATING THE AIR, obverse by Charles Barber. Reverse by George Morgan of flying angel with a torch and SHALL MOUNT UP WITH WINGS AS EAGLES above her. 55 mm x 80 mm, XF
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| #569 | 1918 AE WWI American Car and Foundry medal. These commemorative medals were awarded to honor "industrial soldiers" who worked on the company's munitions contracts during the Great War. The medal, depicts on one side a workman wielding a hammer to smash a German army helmet with entwined snake on an anvil. In the background we see munitions and a ship. The image is circled by the words "Presented by the American Car and Foundry Company", with 1917-1918 in exergue. The other side of the medal depicts Columbia, carrying a sheaf of grain and staff, advancing into the sunrise, toward the Statue of Liberty in the mid-ground. The inscription reads For Service Faithfully Rendered. Just behind the figure's foot are the medallists initials CB-JK. Incused edge inscription reads Gorham Co. Bronze. American Car and Foundry Company at that time was headed by noted numismatist William H. Woodin. 63 mm in diameter. Some planchet flaws and few bumps, therefore XF
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| #570 | 1975, July 17, AE medal commemorating American-Soviet space program cooperation and Apollo-Soyuz flight. Obv.: Portraits of R.H. Goddard and K.E. Tsiolkovsky with an astronaut and a cosmonaut behind them, shaking hands (after two spacecrafts docked on July 17th two commanders Stafford and Leonov, actually did exchanged the first international handshake in space through the open hatch of the Soyuz), and legend MANKIND SHARES / THE BENEFITS OF / SPACE in 3 lines below them. Rx.: two spacecraft approaching each other in space with U.S.A. + U.S.S.R. APOLLO-SOYUZ TEST PROJECT in two languages and JULY 17, 1975 below. AMI BRONZE stamped on edge. 64 mm in diameter, UNC
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| #571 | 1979 AE medal by Frank Gasparro, commemorating John Wayne, American. That important task to commemorate great American was entrusted to then Chief Engraver of U.S. Mint, author of both sides of the Susan B. Anthony dollar, both sides of the Eisenhower Dollar (with the exception of the Bicentennial issue of 1976), the Lincoln Memorial reverse of the cent and the reverse of the Kennedy half dollar. 76 mm in diameter, XF
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