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The E-Sylum: Volume 21, Number 26, July, 1, 2018, Article 11

THE MISSPELLED HAWAII STATEHOOD MEDALS

Last week Dick Johnson noted that one of the Hawaiian islands was misspelled on some of the the Hawaii Statehood Medals, but didn't know which ones. -Editor

Gold Hawaii Statehood Medal

Paul Williams of Holabird Western Americana writes:

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.

Matt Damon? I guess we're cooler than we thought... To help Paul stay in touch I added him to our mailing list. But it doesn't make us any less cool. -Editor

Dick Grinolds writes:

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.

Jon Radel concurs that "Niihau was misspelled on many medals, though apparently none of the gold ones." He also forwarded a link to a page on the NGC Collectors Society site which details infornation on the medals. Dick Johnson had supplied overall mintage information - an earlier E-Sylum article is cited. In addition to Dick, Joe Boling and Bob Rhue contributed.

Thanks everyone, including Joe Levine, who also responded this week. The below images are from the NGC site. -Editor

Silver Hawaii Statehood medal NII HAU Silver Hawaii Statehood medal NIIHAU
Left; NII HAU; Right: NIIHAU

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

Hawaii Statehood medals

To read the NGC Collectors Society page, see: The Official Hawaii Statehood Medals (https://coins.www.collectors-society.com/wcm/CoinCustomSetView.aspx?s=8012)

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see: MORE ON THE 1959 HAWAII GOLD STATEHOOD MEDAL (http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v12n39a16.html)
MORE ON THE HAWAII STATEHOOD MEDAL (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n25a18.html)

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