DETROIT MAYOR'S MEDAL SOUGHT

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V24 2021 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 24, Number 7, February 14, 2021, Article 16

Website visitor Kristofer Carlsson would like to obtain an example of the Detroit Mayor's medal discussed in 2011. Below is the earlier entry. Can anyone help? He can be reached at kristofer.carlsson@pixelize.se .

Also, does anyone have a copy of the price list? How much was the medal offered for? Thanks. -Editor

The following item caught my eye this week. It appeared in Joe Levine's Presidential Coin & Antique Company fixed price list #13... -Editor

DETROIT MAYOR'S MEDAL, 1963. 63.4mm. Bronze. Marshall Fredericks, Sc. (MACO). Uncirculated with some light discoloration on the reverse as shown. The obverse is a depiction of the seal of the city containing a representation of the Detroit fire in which the entire city burned with only one building saved from the flames. The figure of the left weeps over the destruction while the figure on the right gestures to the new city that will rise in its place. The two line Latin inscription at center reads: SPERAMVS RESVRGET/ MELIORA CINERIBVS ("We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes") The reverse is inscribed SPIRIT OF DETROIT above a replication of Frederick's statue of the same name; a 26 foot figure holding a globe which is one of the most recognized monuments in the city.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
THE DETROIT MAYOR'S MEDAL (https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v14n50a13.html)

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