Coins and Medals

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1990    1 Rouble  500th Anniversary - Birth of Francysk Skaryna       Russia

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National Museum of American History - Printing Press
Souvenir medals › Elongated coin

Obverse  Image of an English common printing press with lettering above and below.

Lettering:   NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY

Reverse   Blank.

The press depicted on the coin was said to have been used by Benjamin Franklin in John Watts's printing shop in London in 1726 and is a part of the American Democracy exhibition in the American History Museum in Washington DC.

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SCIENCES & SCIENTIFICS Medal, Aloys Senefelder, n°2 from c.1972

Obverse: 1771 ALOYS SENEFELDER 1834 Head facing
Reverse: 1796 / DISCOVERY / OF THE / LITHOGRAPHY     Legend in 8 lines on a lithograph canvas

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Wooden Nickel - Choate Printing, McMinn County Bicentennial

Obverse  Depiction of the McMinn County court house surrounded by text.

Lettering: MCMINN COUNTY • TENNESSEE • BICENTENNIAL • 1819-2019

Reverse  Antique printing press surrounded by text.

Lettering: CHOATE PRINTING • ETOWAH, TN • 423-263-7548 • SINCE 1965

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Medal - Copley Newspapers celebrates American Bicentennial



Obverse  Liberty Walking, Bald Eagle on Printing Press, and original San Diego Union Newspaper Building

Lettering: COPLEY NEWSPAPERS COMMEMORATES OUR NATION's BICENTENNIAL

Reverse Lettering:
Copley Newspapers
Managing For Growth
Proud of Our Nation's Heritage
Confident in its Future
February 1976

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1 Dollar - Fort St. John, British Columbia



Commemorative issue   Death of Margaret L. "Ma" Murray
Obverse     The late Margaret L. "Ma" Murray, co-founder of the Alaska Highway News and colourful local personality

Lettering:    FORT ST. JOHN, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA     COMMEMORATES      MARGARET L. "MA" MURRAY
1887 1982    "An that's fer damshur!"
CO-FOUNDER OF THE ALASKA HIGHWAY NEWS
Reverse     Antique hand-operated printing press, owned by the Alaska Highway News
Lettering:   WASHINGTON HAND PRESS   ALASKA HIGHWAY NEWS   I PRINTED THE FIRST WORKS OF ROBERT W. SERVICE IN THE
YUKON 1898
VALUE $1.00 IN FORT ST. JOHN  EXPIRES SEPT. 30, 1983

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2 Dollars - Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario



Obverse
Niagara-on-the-lake coat of arms

Lettering:   Commemorative Dollar     Town of Niagara-on-the-lake

Good for $2.00 in Niagara-on-the-lake • Expires Dec. 31, 1993

Reverse
Antique printing press.

Lettering:     First printing press of Upper Canada     1793-1993

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Commemorative medal for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the editor Federico Motta of the Federico Motta Editore Publishing House




Obverse:  Man pulling on a book press.

Lettering: CENTENARIO DELLA NASCITA DEEL FONDATORE

Reverse
Inscription.

Lettering:  FEDERICO MOTTA EDITORE
1896 UN UOMO UN' IDEA 1996

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Numismatics of Industry - Imprimerie Nationale    Token dating from 1848

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500 Tögrög    The Straits Times    Mongolia 1995



Commemorative issue - 150 years of the Straits Times

Obverse
National Symbol the Soyombo; denomination.

Lettering:
500 ᠲᠥᠭᠦᠷᠢᠭ᠌
1 OZ FINE
SILVER.999
ᠮᠤᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ
MONGOLIA

Translation:
500 Tugriks
Monggol Ulus (Mongolia)

Reverse
Newspapers.

Lettering:
SINGAPORE
1845 1995
THE STRAITS TIMES
150 YEARS

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150th anniversary of the Royal Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Industry in Leipzig  1914.




Obverse
Enthroned Pallas Athena with a small figure of Nike in her right hand stretched out to the left.
Lettering: EYERMANN

Reverse
12-line inscription, date separated at sides by two laurel vines.    1764
Lettering: ZUM   150   JÄHRIGEN    BESTEHEN   D.KÖNIGLICHEN   AKADEMIE   F.GRAPHISCHE   KÜNSTE U.
BUCHGEWERBE   ZU LEIPZIG   MÄRZ   1914 

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World exhibition for the book trade and graphics    BUGRA     Leipzig 1914




Obverse
Nude female figure with torch and book in front of a griffin.

Lettering:   INTERNAT.AUSSTELLUNG F. BUCHGEWERBE U.GRAPHIK1914
F. PFEIFER

Reverse
Helmeted city coat of arms.

Lettering:   RAT U. STADTVERORDNETE  DER STADT LEIPZIG

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1 Duit - Deventer 500 years printing             Netherlands 1977
Commemorating the first known book printed in Deventer in 1477




Obverse
Lettering in Latin around an opened book laying on a cross with ornaments.

Lettering:  QUINQUE SAECULUM    BIBLIO TYPOGRAFICA
Translation:  FIVE CENTURIES    BIBLE TYPOGRAPHY

Reverse
Lettering in Dutch around a knight holding a banner and a coat of arms.

Lettering:
1 DUIT
DEVENTER
1477 1977

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Montenegro. Gold Medal, 1893.  Made in celebration of Obod Printing House, 400th anniversary.



Obverse: Crowned double headed eagle with spread wings. Reverse: Depicts "Osmoglasnik" book laid on crossed sword and arrow (symbolizing times where Montenegro was in constant battle for freedom with Ottoman Turks - and still found time, funds and energy to print books), with date 1493 and writing "Spomenica 400 Godisnjic Obodske Stamparije".

Obverse
Lettering:   🟌 3A BЛAДE ГOCПOДAPA ЦPHEГOPE KЊA3A HИKOЛE 1.🟌
1893

Reverse
Lettering:   CПOMEHИЦA 400 ГOДИШЊИЦE OБOДCKE ШTAMПAPИJE 🟌
OCMOГЛACHИK
1493

This medal also came made of tin

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Number 7 in a series of 100 from Franklin Mint        U.S. History (Bicentennial) Ingots
Issued from 1975 to 1983



The Liberator was a weekly newspaper of abolitionist crusader William Lloyd Garrison for 35 years. It was the most influential antislavery periodical in the pre-Civil War period of U.S. history.