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Medal - Lincoln Centennial

Medal - Lincoln Centennial - obverseMedal - Lincoln Centennial - reverse

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Features

Location United States
Type Commemorative medals › Personality medals
Year 1909
Composition Silver plated tombac
Diameter 31 mm
Shape Round with a loop
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
579158
References Cunningham# 11-460Bs
Paul A. Cunningham; 2015. Lincoln’s Metallic Imagery: A Catalog and Price List of Lincoln Coins, Tokens, Medals, and Plaques. Michigan Exonumia Publishers, Tecumseh, Michigan, United States.

Commemorative issue

100th Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln

Obverse

Collared head right

Script: Latin

Lettering:
CENTENNIAL OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
B. L. PRATT
MCMIX

Translation: 1909

Engraver: Bela Lyon Pratt

Reverse

Legend, eagle above, fasces below

Script: Latin

Lettering:
GOVERNMENT
OF THE PEOPLE
BY THE PEOPLE
FOR THE PEOPLE
SHALL NOT PERISH
FROM THE EARTH

Edge

Plain

Mint

Whitehead & Hoag, Newark, United States (1892-1965)

Comments

Available with and without a loop

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1909 

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