[meteorite-list] Coins/Medals/Tokens

[mexicodoug]

Hello Walter,

Up to and including, one Troy ounce, I prefer saying "Mementos".

Medallion sounds like a big medal to me, a $5 word, so size does matter. 
Drawing the line, if at all, is subjective to one's own personal reference 
set (for me it is either a Spanish Milled Dollar 27.1g, US Silver Dollar 
26.7g  or my favorite, a Troy ounce.  Then it sure would look like a 
medallion.  The original Roman medal was silver and weighed only 2.3 grams, 
so to each their own (that to me could uncomfortably justify forme calling 
something 10g a medallion).

Medals (one buys for himself) sometimes are rated for the value of the 
reward.  A 99.9% pure 25g memento has a silver value of $10.88, and if 
Palladium electroplated in the sky as one very pretty example posted, that 
is $0.15 to $0.20 worth of Palladium.  Brilliantly struck LARGE run one Troy 
ounce (31.1g) attractive 0.999 silver bullion coins are sold to investors 
for low prices like $15 ($13.54 silver value); bars I assume are somewhat 
less.  So I personally call these mementos to keep straight exactly what I 
am buying: nostalgia, gift or artistic appreciation.

Best wishes,
Doug



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Branch" <waltbranch at bellsouth.net>
To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Coins/Medals/Tokens


> According to my dictionary, Bob Haag and me - they are medallions
>
> -Walter Branch
>
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