The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 26, June 29, 2003, Article 8

NEWSPAPER GAFFE ADDS TO JOHNSON'S COLLECTION.

  Dick Johnson writes: "I just added a new item of newspaper
  numismatic boners to my collection.  And this is a gem. It's
  from a Wisconsin paper, the North Fond du Lac Reporter. It
  appeared this Friday, June 27th.

  They commissioned a medal for the dual centennial of the village
  and their Winter Fest.  Great reasons for issuing a medal! "We
  made this coin because we wanted to do something special, and
  a lot of people around here collect coins," stated Jennifer
  Frounfelter, a member of the Winterfest Centennial Committee.

  But the Reporter's reporter, Kelly Tucker, described it thusly:
  "Made special by the Great Canadian Mint Company, the
  bi-medal [sic -- that's the term in print!] coin has the village
  seal and dates of incorporation on one side and the village
  logo and centennial dates on the other."

  Further: "'These coins are souvenir tokens to celebrate the
  village's centennial,' said Jim Moon, a former coin collector."

  Not once called what it really is -- a medal! It was described
  as a coin, a souvenir token and "bi-medal" whatever the writer
  meant by that.  It is certainly not "bi-metal" (it looks like one
  metal composition from the illustration).

  It's a squeaker to call it a coin (since it is made by a single
  strike in a coining press), and a stretch to call it a token (it
  bears no value).  But it makes my collection of newspaper
  gaffes and boners to call it "bi-medal."  Read the full article
  at:
http://www.wisinfo.com/thereporter/news/archive/local_10640832.shtml

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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