[meteorite-list] Coins/Medals/Tokens

From: mexicodoug <mexicodoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:10:35 -0500
Message-ID: <00f001c8133c$224fcdc0$4001a8c0_at_MICASA>

Hello Walter,

Up to and including, one Troy ounce, I prefer saying "Mementos".

Medallion sounds like a big medal to me, a $5 word, so size does matter.
Drawing the line, if at all, is subjective to one's own personal reference
set (for me it is either a Spanish Milled Dollar 27.1g, US Silver Dollar
26.7g or my favorite, a Troy ounce. Then it sure would look like a
medallion. The original Roman medal was silver and weighed only 2.3 grams,
so to each their own (that to me could uncomfortably justify forme calling
something 10g a medallion).

Medals (one buys for himself) sometimes are rated for the value of the
reward. A 99.9% pure 25g memento has a silver value of $10.88, and if
Palladium electroplated in the sky as one very pretty example posted, that
is $0.15 to $0.20 worth of Palladium. Brilliantly struck LARGE run one Troy
ounce (31.1g) attractive 0.999 silver bullion coins are sold to investors
for low prices like $15 ($13.54 silver value); bars I assume are somewhat
less. So I personally call these mementos to keep straight exactly what I
am buying: nostalgia, gift or artistic appreciation.

Best wishes,
Doug



----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Branch" <waltbranch at bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Coins/Medals/Tokens


> According to my dictionary, Bob Haag and me - they are medallions
>
> -Walter Branch
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