Coins and Medals

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Lithuania 1985 65th anniversary of Lithuanian Newspaper "Vilnis" in USA, Chicago medal



Vilnis ('Wave') was a Lithuanian language communist newspaper published from Chicago, the United States 1920–1989. The first issue was published on April 8, 1920, following the split the Socialist Party of America. The founder of Vilnis, Vincas Andrulis, became its editor. Vilnis was a daily newspaper, but which became a weekly in its later years. Vilnis was issued by the Workers Publishing Association. By the mid-1920s Vilnis had a circulation of around 11,500. When the New York-based publication Daily Worker as suspended in the 1950s, Vilnis became the most widely circulated communist daily in the country. It had a circulation of around 32,000. As of 1968 Vilnis was a semi-weekly, with a circulation of 5,000. By the mid-1970s, the circulation of Vilnis (published thrice weekly) had dropped to 2,500.

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City of Paris Silver Token 1847   Cercle de la Librairie, de l'Imprimerie et de la Papeterie (Circle of booksellers, printers and stationers)

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German Reich, German Printers' Association, Silver Medal of Honor



German Printers' Association, Silver Medal of Honor, awarded from 1926 to 1934.

Stamped silver, approximately 46 mm. The obverse features symbolic representations of printing activities in the style of a triptych; the artist's signature "MORIN" of the Berlin painter, sculptor, and medalist Georges Morin (1874–1950) is found in the lower right. The reverse depicts a griffin with two handled printer's balls amidst a descriptive inscription.

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500 Schilling coin from 1998   Austria



Österreich, 2. Republik, 500 Schilling 1998

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Medal, International Congress of Publishers, Paris, 1896




Booksellers', Printing and Stationery Club / Founded in 1847

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Medal - VEB Kombinat Polygraph - Leipzig
Brown porcelain medal from 1981



Obverse
Bust of Marcus Brandis left, legend surrounding.

Lettering:
500 JAHRE BUCHDRUCK IN LEIPZIG
1481 - 1981

Reverse
4-line inscription above company logo and Meissen swords.

Lettering:
MARCUS
BRANDIS
DRUCKTE 1481
DAS ERSTE BUCH IN LEIPZIG
POLYGRAPH

Marcus Brandis was born in Delitzsch around 1455 and learned the printing trade from his brother in Lübeck. In 1479, Marcus Brandis was working as a printer in Merseburg and came to Leipzig in 1480.

On September 28, 1481, Marcus Brandis printed the first book documented in Leipzig , Giovanni Nanni's "Glosa Apocalipsim," a small Latin manuscript, presumably commissioned by the Dominicans. The printing of this work is considered the birth of Leipzig's printing industry . Between 1481 and 1487, Brandis published over 60 printed works. He printed for theologians, medical books, texts for Latin instruction at the university, and several grammars. For the Saxon rulers Ernst and Albrecht, Marcus Brandis printed the 1482 state ordinance twice. Brandis mastered the then very complex technique of two-color printing.

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Medal commemorating 200 Years of the Haller Tagblatt Printing House    1988



Haller Tagblatt (Haller Daily Paper) is a German daily newspaper for the district of Schwäbisch Hall. It first appeared as a weekly newspaper in 1788 under the name Hallisches Wochenblatt, and is the second oldest newspaper in Baden-Württemberg.