HAND-ENGRAVED CONFEDERATE DAVIS FLIGHT MEDAL

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The E-Sylum: Volume 17, Number 46, November 9, 2014, Article 15

HAND-ENGRAVED CONFEDERATE DAVIS FLIGHT MEDAL

And speaking of the Civil War, this note came in just today from web site visitor Kent Whiting of Helena, MT. He writes:

I recently read with great interest the query by Nat Kaminski in The E-Sylum: Volume 17, Number 13, March 30, 2014 regarding his engraved 8 reale coin. I have a similar engraved 8 reale coin with a less elaborate engraving. It says simply “FROM GENL JOS. E. JOHNSTON MAY THE 1st 1865”. The date on this coin is quite late, given that most all of the troops were paid on April 26th (according to the follow-up letters in The E-Sylum). May 1st is 5 days after the Greensboro troops were paid. I have attached a photograph of the coin in hopes one of your readers may have some information on this coin.

The most interesting part about being the editor of The E-Sylum is that I never know what I'll find in my in-box each day. Sometimes it's a wonderful never-before-seen item like Kent's engraved 8 reales. Below I've compiled links to all of the relevant E-Sylum articles I can find on the topic. This coin matches none of them but clearly it has a connection. What do readers think? How many more of these might surface over time? -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
EXHIBIT: HAND-ENGRAVED CIVIL WAR SILVER COINS (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v14n01a14.html)
QUERY: ENGRAVED CONFEDERATE CAMP MARION COIN INFO SOUGHT (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n13a15.html)
MORE ON ENGRAVED CONFEDERATE DAVIS FLIGHT MEDALS (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n15a21.html)
ALAN WEINBERG ON DAVIS FLIGHT MEDALS (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n16a20.html)
PETER BERTRAM ON DAVIS FLIGHT MEDALS (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n17a12.html)
ON COMPARING HAND-ENGRAVING STYLES (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n18a07.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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