"On the so-called "paper" Chicago 1893 medal. The image certainly indicates a fiber content, not paper. There are quite a few fiber medals and hundreds of different fiber tokens, most notably the WWII OPA tokens."

"The almost universally used term for these items is "macerated", a word used on the paper labels applied to many of the objects when they were made. Like you, I have never seen an actual (two-sided) medal intended to be used as such, but I do have a couple of uniface copies of Presidential mint medals. On both the reverse is an incuse image of the bust. The McKinley has promotional text from the maker in raised letters (difficult to photograph), while the TR has a paper label. Having never seen another example, I can't say if the red highlights on TR are original to the piece. McKinley's coat has a slightly whitish tint with pieces of currency clearly visible."

"I suppose the words are synonyms. And I don't know if you would consider the attached to be a medal, but it is round..."

"16 July is the date of Apollo XI's launch, which you probably know. "Eagle" touched down on the 20th, and "Columbia" returned to Earth on the 24th. Unfortunately, I can tell you no more about this particular medal."

"The Apollo 11 / Project Apollo medal you have in the latest E-Sylum (May 24) appears to be a very common one made by Galaxy Medals Inc. in Titusville, Florida, near the Kennedy Space Center. I see the auction listing was removed, so I can't tell if it's the usual 39mm size, or might be a smaller size holed for a keyring. Attached is a composite photo of a much nicer example.

I had the exhibit of 50 different Apollo 11 medals at the ANA World's Fair of Money last summer, and do plan to contact Heritage Auctions about a possible catalog. Their current auction of space memorabilia closes on June 5. (2020 June 5 Space Exploration Signature Auction - Dallas #6227)"

"After the feature on "non-numismatic resources" in the recent issue, I bring to the attention of the readership one useful tool, which might not be as widely known as it might be.vocab Academia.edu is a clearing house of published scholarly papers on subjects pretty much across the board. If one were to enter, say, "nineteenth century banking" or "legal tender notes" a vast amount of relevant research would appear. I entered numismatics/medals with remarkable results.

The really wonderful thing is that the site then takes off on remarkable tangents and feeds much material which might at one level be peripheral but which is ultimately connected to the initial search. For a nominal fee, one can engage the "premium" service and thereby receive a great supply of articles, reviews, etc, sufficient to waste vast amounts of time (most agreeably it must be said...) Very useful to check in if one is in pursuit of esoteric numismatic knowledge..."

"To paraphrase President Lincoln's famous riddle about a dog's tail, calling a note a Hoboken City Bank note doesn't make it one."

"Rather fascinating workmanship to create this "mixed metal" Indian cent, commemorating some unknown event dated February 19, 1884."

"In the current Kolbe-Fanning sale there is a lot of Paul Seitz items. In that lot's footnotes there is a claim, which I have seen in print before, that Seitz was Tom Elder's son-in-law. I do not believe this to be true.

Many years ago at York, Pa coin show, I spoke with Paul. I asked if he was related to Elder. Seitz told me that he WAS related to Elder through his mother, and that he had handled material from the Elder estate. I asked if he had Elder auction catalogs.He said that he had some. At that time I was looking for the catalog of the Peter Mougey sale, however Paul didn't have that one."