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The E-Sylum: Volume 23, Number 38, September 20, 2020, Article 15

QUERY: GENERAL MOTORS OCEAN OPERATIONS MEDAL

Frank Pugliese of High Point, NC submitted these notes on a Medallic Arts medal. Does anyone have more information on this? It's uniface and marked MACO on the edge. Anyone have one of these? I also pointed him to Dr. Jesse Kraft of the American Numismatic Society, who is cataloging the ANS holdings of MACO material. -Editor

General Motors Ocean Operations Medal A number of years ago, my wife and I were set up at a coin show held in Baltimore each year. A customer stopped by our table and, seeing that we featured medals and tokens, asked if I was interested in two that he wanted to sell. The first was a MACO Medal for the General Motors 50,000th car. The second was a MACO medal I had never see either before or since. I bought both. I've attached a photograph of the medal.

The medal pictured was in a flip marked "General Motors Ocean Operations" and "Science and Technology Society." Since the topic fit my automotive collection, it "fell off the cart."

Now in my late 80s, it is time to pass on some of my treasures. Never having seen this medal before or during the intervening years since its purchase, I sought more information on it. My IT Department ( my somewhat tech savvy wife), looked online but had no success in locating information on it. She did find that, under GMOO, the acronym was identified as General Motors Overseas Operations, a ill-fated venture in Europe in the 1930s. She found nothing on the Society or the medal itself.

The medal is bronze and 35mm in diameter. The reverse is a plain incuse with a 2 mm rim. It is quite heavy. Unfortunately I do not have access to the MACO records.

I am hoping your readers might have some information in your data bank which might shed some light on this medal.

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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