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NUMISMATIC NUGGETS: JULY 19, 2020Here's a selection of interesting or unusual items I came across in the marketplace this week. Tell us what you think of some of these. -Editor
Armand Caque Benjamin Franklin Medal 
"1818" (ca. 1830) Benjamin Franklin Series Numismatica Medal. By Armand Caque. Greenslet GM-42, Fuld FR.M.SE.1. Bronze. Plain Edge. MS-62 BN (NGC). 41 mm. Bold, high relief design. Great portrait! From the Stack's Bowers August 2020 Auction. -Editor
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1842/0-MA Central American Republic 8 Reales 
Type: Central American Republic Date: 1842/0-MA 8 Reales Service: PCGS Grade: MS65+ Description: This is far and away the finest known example of this rare overdate issue and quite possibly for the type. The finest on the NGC pop report is a sole MS63 and PCGS has seen no other uncirculated specimens of this date. Superb luster and strike. Great coin! From the stock of Northeast Numismatics. -Editor
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Kentucky Civil War Sutler Token 
Civil War Sutler token Schenkman KY 1-25Z (formerly NL M-25I) R9 NGC MS67 with 80% Bright mint luster an impressive token. Simmonds Battery Sutler J. M. Kerr 25 Cents struck in Tin Plate. From the Steve Tanenbaum, David Schenkman and George Fuld collections April 1991. Found in the offerings of Steve Hayden. -Editor
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1866 Shield Nickel Pattern J-489 
Type: Pattern Date: 1866 5 Cent Judd-489 Service: NGC Grade: PF66UCAM Description: R-L6. Very cool looking pattern! The date is split and the reverse design is very different than the one chosen for production. The only UCAM/DCAM at either service. I immediately fell in love with Shield Nickel patterns after reading a COINage article about them as a wee numismatist. Great style! This is another item from the stock of Northeast Numismatics. -Editor
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1906 Gold Carnegie Hero Fund Medal 
1906 MEDAL Carnegie Hero Fund Gold Medal, Harris G. Giddings, MS67 NGC. 280.04 grams. The Carnegie Hero Fund awarded bronze (awarded today), silver (awarded from 1904 to 1979), and gold medals (awarded from 1904 to 1923) for lifesaving efforts over many decades. According to the fund's website, Carnegiehero.org, Carnegie heroes are those who enter into mortal danger to rescue others. The medal is described as "the highest honor for civilian heroism in the U.S. and Canada." Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), the famous 19th and early 20th century industrialist and philanthropist, established the fund in 1904. All awardees are identified at the website, including Harris Giddings, the hero of this gold medal: "Harris G. Giddings, 45, captain of city fireboat, helped to save Jacob Flyter, 30, from drowning, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 30, 1906. Giddings and two other men descended a 55-foot shaft and rescued Flyter, who was imprisoned in an air-chamber of a tunnel under the Milwaukee River, into which water was leaking." I have a small collection of bronze Carnegie Hero medals. The silver ones are rare and the gold rarer still. This example is offered in the Heritage August 2020 sales. -Editor
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Royal Mint Elton John Coin
Elton John 2020 UK One Ounce Silver Proof Coin
The coin design honouring this music legend was created by Bradley Morgan Johnson. With any number of famous looks from which to draw inspiration, Bradley chose to depict the performer wearing his famous music-note glasses and straw boater's hat This colorized silver proof highlights a delightful "invisible man" design. Gotta love it. -Editor
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