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    Osborne Mint Makes MCA Club Medals in 2022 & 2024

     

    Since 2012, the MCA has issued an annual club medal in silver and bronze which is available for purchase by the members. Club medals to date have been struck in very limited numbers, and the images and mintages for each are given below. Osborne Mint is pleased to announce we were chosen to mint the 2024 and 2022 medals. 

    2024 MCA Club Medal

    The Collectors' Garden
    Louisa Sanders, 2024

    The bee is a collector of pollen, as well as the producer of honey. Without the bees' contribution to the garden, many flowers would not blossom, and fruit would not grow. There exists a determined and inevitable symbiosis.

    The obverse illustrates a swarm of bees collecting pollen from a garden of elegant flowers. I chose each of the flowers because of their meaning according to Victorian Floriography. Zinnias, for example, symbolize everlasting friendship. Apple blossoms indicate preference, daisy references youth, pansy means "you occupy my thoughts", and so on. Combined, these flowers create a bouquet that indicates friendship and new beginnings.

    The reverse depicts a noble bee in the honeycomb matrix of his hive with the MCA 2024 inscription encircled by a bough of apple blossoms. I feel that this iconography represents the medal collectors and some of their contributions to the field of medallic art by way of both preservation and enabling new growth.

    Title: The Collectors' Garden
    Artist: Louisa Sanders
    Material: Bronze
    Size: 3" (76.2 mm)
    Edition: 50

    2022 MCA Club Medal

    Origins
    Michael Meszaros, 2022

    For Renaissance Italy, coinage, which was readily available in considerable numbers, along with many other forms of ancient art, was tangible evidence of the glories of ancient civilizations and a spiritual and ideological inspiration for contemporary artists and collectors. It is this heritage we have chosen as the subject of this year's MCA annual medal. The obverse displays a hand holding a contemporary medal showing a series of adjacent heads each speaking into the ear before it, thus symbolizing the effective role of the medal as a means of communication.

    On the reverse, referring to the inspiration of Roman coins for the invention of the modern medal, is a representation of the obverse of one of the most beautiful Roman sestertii shown amidst the dirt and shards of a pot that once contained a buried hoard. The portrait is of Agrippina the Elder (c. 14 BC-33AD). a granddaughter of Emperor Augustus, wife of Germanicus, and mother of Nero and Caligula, during whose reign the coin was minted. On the reverse of the actual coin is a carpentum drawn by mules probably containing the ashes of Agrippina.

    Title: Origins
    Artist: Michael Meszaros
    Date: November 2022
    Material: Verbronze (chemically aged solid brass)
    Size: 3" (76.2 mm)
    Edition: 50

    For more information about previous year medals, visit https://www.medalcollectors.org/about/medals

    Information reprinted with permission from the The Medal Collectors of America

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    Established in 1835, Osborne Mint is America’s oldest continuously operating private mint. Osborne Mint is part of HM Precious Metals and the Osborne Coinage family, which includes Osborne Coinage, TokensDirect and Van Brook of Lexington. The mint, a 60,000 square foot facility in Cincinnati, Ohio, houses the development, engraving and manufacturing of numismatic quality collectible rounds, bars and coins.

    Every Osborne Mint product is manufactured to strict standards for metal purity, weight and dimensions. Osborne Mint strikes thousands of collectible rounds annually and circulates them to the public through certified distributors. Gold plate, fine silver, copper and brass collections from Osborne Mint are truly pieces of art and are 100% “Made in America.” – Art Belongs on a Coin

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