The latest addition to the Newman Numismatic Portal is an educational presentation on the medals of FDR. Project Coordinator Len Augsburger provided the following report.
-Editor
Mint Medals of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Recently added to Newman Portal is a slide deck presented by Heath MacAlpine at the January 15, 2020 Central Ohio Numismatic Association (CONA) meeting. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt was the subject of a surprisingly large number of U.S. Mint medals, and MacAlpine’s presentation makes sense of it all, detailing a number of medal series that portrayed
Roosevelt. These include the inaugural medals, presidential pieces, assay commission medals, the U.S. Mint visitor medals, and finally the Roosevelt memorial medals.
MacAlpine’s die variety analysis of the presidential and memorial series is especially helpful. In all, MacAlpine counts nearly 30 varieties of Roosevelt medals produced by the
Mint, and anyone who wishes to collect this material will do well to study the images in this presentation. Newman Portal acknowledges CONA editor Gerry Tebben for his assistance
with this content.
Image: Philadelphia Mint visitor’s medal featuring Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1938)
Link to The United States Medals of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/574213
Wayne Homren, Editor
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