Here is a picture of a calendar medal with Christmas-related reverse.

Your holiday-themed medal roundup is really terrific. Thanks very much for organizing us to share a few interesting pieces from our collections. Here’s one more – an unsigned 38mm copper medal by William H. Key from the 1880’s, showing a Holy Nativity scene on one side and group of cherubs (the “Heavenly Host”) on the other.

The reason I don’t say obverse and reverse is that this particular piece involves two dies that were both used as obverses on several different Sunday School award medals in the late-19th century. At the same time, it’s hard to call it a mule because – like Lovett and other American medalists of that period – Key engraved a bunch of dies for his stock medals and then mixed and matched them quite liberally as a matter or course in his medal business, selling whatever the market would bear.

Merry Christmas!

One year I spent over £50.00 with the family going to Gulliver’s Travels at the cinema so I think he owes me! His interest in coins makes us even!

Although I can't find the original source of the quotation on the Roosevelt plaque either, it is widely ascribed to Roosevelt himself. In fact, it is one of a number of Roosevelt quotations inscribed on the inside the Roosevelt Memorial rotunda at the American Museum of Natural History. See:
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/theodore-roosevelt-memorial/theodore-roosevelt-quotes .

The coverage given to 1960s publication The Coin Dealer a few weeks ago reminds me of another periodical for dealers that I've been seeking. During that same decade Whitman put out a publication for its supply dealers that was known under several titles, and I'm trying to obtain or simply locate as many issues as possible. The title used the longest was Whitman Coin Supply Merchandiser, but it also was called at various times Coin Supply Merchandiser or Stamp and Coin Supply Merchandiser. I'm hoping readers may have this publication for either sale or loan. My next book will be on Whitman coin folders and albums, so this could provide some useful dates and facts.

The last time I saw Rich Hartzog (it was in Baltimore) I asked about this piece, which he said he had never seen previously and promised to see if he could get any info on it. It appears to be a ferry boat ticket of the early 1800's (supposedly from New York City, although for sure printed in NYC). "Mobilitate viget" is from Virgil, and means "it grows by moving").

Previous to my asking Rich about this I did extensive research on early New York Transit tokens, chits and the like, asked many other sources, including the New-York Historical Society, Heritage and B. Cudahy, author of the definitive work on Ferry Boat stuff from NYC.

Anyway, I came up with almost nothing, and was wondering if any of our readers may have some insight into this thick uniface cardboard piece that measures approx 55 x 50 mm.

I used to buy them by the pound & use them as giveaways when I had a book signing, or went to a convention & gave goody bags. Chocolate is always welcome! Happy holidays!

Can anyone identify the mystery coin dealer sitting on the wing of a moving aircraft? Hint: He was a coin dealer after retiring as a stunt pilot.