The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 15, April 7, 2002, Article 3

CARNEGIE MUSEUM COLLECTION

  On Tuesday evening, April 2nd, your editor and several
  E-Sylum subscribers attended a meeting of the Western
  Pennsylvania Numismatic Society.  This was a special
  meeting, held on the premises of the Carnegie Museum
  of Natural History in Pittsburgh.   One of our members,
  John Burns, had scouted ahead and selected a few choice
  items from the numismatic collection for viewing.  Looking
  at fine coins and medals is one of the primal pleasures of
  numismatics.  A few of the highlights were:

  Carnegie Hero Medal specimen, in gold
  Paquet's medal of General Meade
  Pistrucci's Waterloo medal in bronze
  Heeren Brothers 50th Anniversary medal in bronze
  Japanese Gold oban
  Scottish Carnegie Hero Medal in bronze
  Chinese Knife money
  Furst's medal for Capt. Jesse D. Elliott for the Defeat
         of the British Fleet on Lake Erie, 1813
  Yap stone money (small size)
  Bryan Money 1896 in cast iron

  My personal favorite was an offbeat item that looks like it
  had been shot through with a bullet, for good reason.  The
  notes say: "Western Pennsylvania Numismatic Society 1878
  medal  "shot the hole with a rifle by Dr. Carver during the
  time of the Pittsburgh Exposition by being thrown in the air"

  The Pistrucci Waterloo medal was a sight to behold.  There's
  enough engraving on that one piece for fifty medals.  No
  wonder the dies took thirty-three years to complete.  The
  museum copy is probably one of the Pinches reductions
  (see the Featured Web Site for more information and an
  illustration of the medal).

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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