The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 23, June 8, 2003, Article 25

HAVING A FLING WITH MEDALS

  In last week's issue I asked about some of the more creative
  ways of disposing of an overage of medals.

  David Lange writes: "What to do with remaining supplies of
  medals has always been a quandary.  When I lived in California,
  I belonged (and still do) to a coin club in the San Francisco
  Bay Area called Liberty Numismatic Society. The club began
  issuing medals annually in 1987, its 30th anniversary, and my
  designs were selected for three of the first four years.  The first
  year's medal was oversubscribed, and a number of prospective
  buyers were disappointed. To avoid a repeat of this situation,
  the number minted in 1988 was greatly increased, with the
  inevitable result that not all were sold.  While the remaining
  silver pieces were simply returned for recycling into the next
  year's edition, the unsold bronze medals presented a real
  problem.  This was solved when the officers and board of
  directors held a "medal dumping" party on a pier alongside the
  San Mateo Bridge.  The 80 or so leftover medals were flung
  across the waters of SF Bay, as we matched our skills at
  skipping them over the waves. While doubtless breaking some
  law, our action did protect the integrity of the medals sold to
  collectors, and I suspect that the evidence of our crime is nearly
  unrecoverable at this point."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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