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The Franklin Fire Insurance Company Anniversary Medal 1919Obv: THE FRANKLIN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA - 1829, an image of an early 19th Century fire pump stationed outside of a burning building. Bust of Benjamin Franklin, inset, facing right within a circle.
Rev: 90th Anniversary Greetings - Elbridge G. Snow President - 1829 - 1919.
Note: Advertising piece for the Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia, PA. Three feet are attached to reverse allowing the medal to serve as a paperweight. Diameter: 76 mm.
Manufacturer: Whitehead and Hoag Novelty Company, Newark, NJ
Date: 1919Matt InglimaMar 25, 2023
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Susan B. Anthony, 1963 NYU Hall of Fame MedalObv: SUSAN B. ANTHONY 1820 – 1906, bust of Ms. Anthony facing left, THE HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY on outer rim.
Rev: A ballot box decorated with balanced scales in center. On either side are men and women from different walks of life equally casting votes into the ballot box. Above is a heraldic eagle with wings outstretched, 5 stars above. EQUAL SUFFRAGE in exergue.
Category: Humanitarian
Year Elected: 1950
Medal Issued: 1963
Sculptor: Paul Fjelde
Mint: Medallic Art Company
Details: Bronze, 44 mm, 0°
Matt InglimaMar 24, 2023
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Mary Lyon, 1967 NYU Hall of Fame MedalObv: MARY LYON 1797 - 1849, bust of Ms. Lyon facing right. THE HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ©1967.
Rev: FOUNDER MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, a depiction of Mary Lyon teaching a gathering of young ladies. The lamp of knowledge rests on laurel leaves below.
Note: Laura Gardin Fraser passed away before the reverse design of the Mary Lyon medal could be executed in plaster. It was ultimately finished by Karl H. Gruppe working off of Ms. Fraser’s sketches.
Category: Education
Year Elected: 1905
Medal Issued: 1967
Sculptors: Laura Gardin Fraser and Karl H. Gruppe
Mint: Medallic Art Company
Details: Bronze, 44 mm, 0°
Matt InglimaMar 24, 2023
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Josiah Willard Gibbs, 1964 NYU Hall of Fame MedalObv: JOSIAH WILLARD GIBBS 1839 – 1903 “WHOSE NAME NOT ONLY IN AMERICA BUT IN THE WHOLE WORLD WILL EVER BE RECKONED AMONG THE MOST RENOWNED PHYSICISTS OF ALL TIME" - MAX PLANCK. Head of Gibbs facing three-quarters to right. THE HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY inscribed on outer most edge.
Rev:, An ancient physicist, using parchment and quill to note the theory for harnessing the sun’s rays to create fire in order to heat a jar of liquid which produces steam.
Category: Scientist
Year Elected: 1950
Medal Issued: 1964
Sculptor: Stanley Martineau
Mint: Medallic Art Company
Details: Bronze, 44 mm, 0°
Matt InglimaMar 24, 2023
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John Marshall, 1965 NYU Hall of Fame MedalObv: JOHN MARSHALL 1755 - 1835, bust of Marshall, based on a crayon profile by French artist Févret de Saint-Mémin, facing left.
Rev:, The Authority of the Supreme Court represented in a female form, seated, holding the scales of Justice with the fasces representing the unity of the states preserved with EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW. © THE HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, date 1965 in exergue.
Category: Law, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Year Elected: 1900
Medal Issued: 1965
Sculptor: Karl Gruppe
Mint: Medallic Art Company
Details: Bronze, 44 mm, 0°
Matt InglimaMar 19, 2023
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John James Audubon, 1962 NYU Hall of Fame MedalObv: JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 1785 - 1851, bust of Audubon facing right..
Rev: A barn owl, with wings outstretched, about to capture a mouse in its claws. THE HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ©1962.
Note: The reverse is not a direct copy or adaptation of Audubon’s work but rather a representation of his main focus which was the study of birds.
Category: Science and Art
Year Elected: 1900
Medal Issued: 1962
Sculptor: Gertrude K. Lathrop
Mint: Medallic Art Company
Details: Bronze, 44 mm, 0°
Matt InglimaMar 19, 2023
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James Buchanan Eads, 1971 NYU Hall of Fame MedalObv: JAMES BUCHANAN EADS 1820 - 1887, bust of Eads facing three-quarters to left, THE HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ©1971.
Rev: A representation of Eads’ major engineering accomplishments; the Mississippi River Bridge at St. Louis, and his improvements to channel system to keep the river’s mouth clear of sediments. THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI IS TAMED BY HIS KNOWLEDGE AND BY HIS WORKS.
Category: Engineering
Year Elected: 1920
Medal Issued: 1971
Sculptor: Robert A. Weinman
Mint: Medallic Art Company
Details: Bronze, 44 mm, 0°
Matt InglimaMar 19, 2023
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Phillips Brooks, 1965 NYU Hall of Fame MedalObv: PHILLIPS BROOKS 1835 - 1893, bust of Brooks facing left, with right arm raised. Radiant cross shines down upon him from field. THE HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ©1965.
Rev: A depiction of God creating the universe from the Book of Genesis. IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH.
Category: Clergyman
Year Elected: 1910
Medal Issued: 1965
Sculptor: Abram Belskie
Mint: Medallic Art Company
Details: Bronze, 44 mm, 0°
Matt InglimaMar 19, 2023
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Abraham Lincoln, 1963 NYU Hall of Fame MedalObv: LINCOLN 1809 - 1865, bust of Abraham Lincoln facing right, "With malice toward none ...with charity for all." A. Lincoln in script.
Rev: A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND, a frieze of huddled slaves in foreground, with raised, shackled hands in center; EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION around the disk of the sun. THE HALL OF FAME OF GREAT AMERICANS AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ©1963, in exergue.
Note: Release of the Abraham Lincoln medal coincided with the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Category: Statesmen
Year Elected: 1900
Medal Issued: 1963
Sculptor: Anthony DeFrancisci
Mint: Medallic Art Company
Details: Bronze, 44 mm, 0°Matt InglimaMar 16, 2023
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1965 NYU Hall of Fame MedalObv: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 1809 – 1894, bust of Holmes facing, inclined slightly to the left.
Rev:, The figure of a kneeing woman, above which are the symbols for Mars, Venus, Infinity, and a dagger. On the left is an armless figure of a naked man viewed from behind, on the right is the USS Constitution, for which Holmes wrote the poem “Old Ironsides.” THE HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ©1965.
Category: Physician and Poet
Year Elected: 1915
Medal Issued: 1965
Sculptor: Michael Lantz
Mint: Medallic Art Company
Details: Bronze, 44 mm, 0°
Matt InglimaMar 12, 2023
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 1970 NYU Hall of Fame MedalObv: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 1841 – 1935, bust of Holmes facing, slightly inclined to the left.
Rev: A robed, kneeling figure of Justice holding a quill and an open book, behind her are scales of justice and the United States Supreme Court building stands in the background. JUSTICE AND EQUALITY FOR ALL MANKIND in exergue. THE HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ©1970.
Category: Law, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Year Elected: 1965
Medal Issued: 1970
Sculptor: Joseph Kiselewski
Mint: Medallic Art Company
Details: Bronze, 44 mm, 0°
Matt InglimaMar 12, 2023
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Frances Elizabeth Willard, 1969 NYU Hall of Fame MedalObv: FRANCES ELIZABETH WILLARD 1839 – 1898, bust of Willard facing three-quarters to the left.
Rev: A depiction of Willard, holding a cross in her right hand, and leading with compassion a man who has become intemperate in his ways. Above is the insignia of the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union. THE HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ©1969.
Category: Humanitarian
Year Elected: 1910
Medal Issued: 1969
Sculptor: Carl Paul Jennewein
Mint: Medallic Art Company
Details: Bronze, 44 mm, 0°
Matt InglimaMar 12, 2023
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Vespasian, 69 - 79 ADObv: IMP CAES VESP AVG P M COS IIII, laureate head of Vespasian facing right.
Rev: No legend, a palm tree with two bunches of fruit; on left, Vespasian standing right in military dress, spear in right hand, parazonium in left, left foot on helmet; on right, Judaea, as a mourning captive, is seated right on ground.
Note: Part of the "Judaea Capta" series.
Silver Denarius, Antioch mint, 72 AD
3.09 grams, 16.7 mm, 0°
RIC IIi 1558, RSC 645, S2278, VM 7
Ex: FORVMMatt Inglima
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WWI, Australia Victory MedalObv: VICTORY above, a sailor (left) and a soldier (right) standing, radiate crown above, a large wreathe in center with the inscription: THE TRIUMPH OF LIBERTY AND JUSTICE within, THE PEACE OF 1919 on a ribbon below.
Rev: The Goddess of Peace or Victory standing on a base inscribed: PEACE 1919, two doves fly on either side of her, at her feet are two captives whose chains and shackles have been broken; AUSTRALIA in exergue.
Patriotic medal (missing ribbon),
Silver plated brass.
8.5 grams, 27.27 mm Matt Inglima
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Alexander Graham Bell, 1963 NYU Hall of Fame MedalObv: THE HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY outer legend, ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL 1847 – 1922 inner border, head of Bell facing three-quarters to left.
Rev: A woman and a baby on right, reaching out through the cosmos to a man on the other side.
Category: Inventor
Year Elected: 1950
Medal Issued: 1963
Sculptor: Stanley Martineau
Mint: Medallic Art Company
Details: Bronze, 44 mm, 0°
Matt Inglima
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