The gold Hawaii statehood medal (lot 1435) sold for $10,500 (plus buyers premium), and the silver sold for $600 (lot 1441). The sale was June 22, 2018.

The way I understood it, it was the silver medals that they misspelled the name of the state as two words, but I may be mistaken.

Thanks for the great job on The E-Sylum. Every time I Google Esylum on a new computer I get a Matt Damon movie, but I find you eventually.

The island of Niihau was misspelled as Nii Hau (two words) on the initial strikings of the Hawaiian Statehood medal struck by Medallic Art Company. The error was corrected to the proper spelling of Niihau (one word) which is the western most major island in the Hawaiian chain. Both the bronze and silver examples of the medal were struck with and without the spelling error; all of the gold medals were spelled correctly.

Although I have never seen any information on how many of each variety were struck, the misspelled medals are definitely more elusive and command higher prices.

(serial number 1043 is the last NII HAU error and serial number 1044 is the first NIIHAU correction medal).