One often underreported area of the hobby is medal collecting. In the past, I’ve been attracted to various medals and collected a few – from the U.S. Centennial celebration in 1876, the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition to name a few. But it’s never been a serious pursuit and more related to what interested me at the time.
Some basics of niche in the hobby were covered in the May 1965 issue of Coins in “Medals…Medalets… Medallions…What They Are / What They Mean / Where They Come From,” by Loraine Burdick.
“The dictionary defines a medal as an award or commemorative piece,” Burdick began. “Of course it can honor some advertiser, artist, or commemorate a venture into business. A medal is of medium size, but there seems to be little actual limitation to
