The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 31, July 17, 2005, Article 23

ZEB PIKE MEDALS

Bill Spengler of Colorado Springs, Colorado writes: "
Yes, Virginia, there is a Zeb Pike medal.

Thanks to Larry Dziubek for confirming this and citing the
Hibler-Kappen reference in the last (July 10) E-Sylum. If
you want to see these medals honoring Lt. Zebulon Pike's
"discovery" of famous Pikes Peak in 1806 come to Colorado
Springs and at the same time have a glimpse of the peak
(14,114 feet according to a recent re-measurement) and
Pike's statue downtown. In fact, you can easily reach the
summit of the peak by car or cog railway, and not so easily
by foot. By the way, did you know that officially there is no
apostrophe in Pikes Peak? It is one of the few such exceptions
in American geographic placenames as recognized by a U.S.
Government agency. (Marthas Vinyard. I believe, is another.)

As it happens, only recently I sold my modest collection of ten
Zeb Pike medals and two large 1905 G.A.R. Pikes Peak bronze
medals to nationally-known dealer (and former A.N.A. President)
Ken Hallenbeck of the Hallenbeck Coin Gallery here. It included
Pike medals in various metals and configurations -- with and
without hasp, with suspender, with ribbon, with bar -- a nice
assortment. They were issued originally for the Pike centennial
here in 1906, and a stash of them was discovered in the vault of
a local bank during the sesquicentennial observances in 1956.

I understand that a local group is planning to issue an entirely new
Pike medal in gold (limited number), silver and bronze for the
bicentennial next year."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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