ANS EXHIBITS MEDALLIC ART COMPANY ARCHIVES

The American Numismatic Society (ANS) this week mounted an exhibit in the ANS foyer, displaying select examples from the recently acquired MACO archives. Per the exhibit,

“In 2018, the ANS acquired the archives of the Medallic Art Company (MACO), a collection of more than 50,000 items of historic and numismatic significance. MACO was founded in New York City around 1909 as a private mint producing medals and galvanos by some of the most prominent American sculptors of the twentieth century. The ANS acquired the archives as part of the bankruptcy proceedings of the Northwest Territorial Mint in a bid to preserve the heritage of the important mint and make available its archives for future study and research.

This exhibit represents a small assortment of the medals from this acquisition. From the artistic to the industrial, MACO medals display a vast array of styles as well as subject matter. The medals here illustrate a cross-section of this collection from the company’s Beaux-Arts beginnings to the Modernist art medals of the 1960s, and from more intimate portraits to corporate awards.”

Illustrated here are the two exhibit cases, including a New York Zoological Society Madison Grant Medallion, a 1931 bronze medal by John R. Sinnock.

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