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American Revolution Bicentennial Commission Medal


Representative Images
in Bicentennial Medals (currently in collection)
United States of America, 1976. Medal turn. 33mm, 1.3125 inches, 40.24 grams, 1.16437 troy oz. Fine gold.900 fine.

The official medal of the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission.

Obverse:  Torso of the Statue of Liberty with rays emanating from her "beacon" light.  50 five pointed stars around the outer rim.  Each side of Statue:  1776//1976/LIFE LIBERTY//AND THE/PURSUIT OF//HAPPINESS.
On Liberty's tablet:  JULY IV/MDCCLXXVI.  Below Statue's robes:  F. GASPARRO
Reverse:  The Great Seal of the United States eagle, with cloudburst above containing 13 five pointed stars.  Around the outer rim:  The ARBC logo pictured, AMERICAN REVOLUTION BICENTENNIAL, a second ARBC logo//Below:  WE THE PEOPLE.
Below the eagle's left leg:  EZS

Reeded edge

Sculptor:  Frank Gasparro
United State Mint

Produced in Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Gold Plated Bronze

Gold:  500 pieces 76mm, 3 inches, 455 grams, 13.16572 troy oz. Fine gold.900 fine.  5,000 pieces as noted above.  10,000 pieces, 23 mm.906 inches, 12.787 grams,
.37 troy oz. Fine gold.900 fine.
Sterling Silver:  1,500 pieces 76mm, 3 inches, 263 grams, 7.82147 troy oz. Fine silver.900 fine.  300,000 pieces, 38mm, 1.5 inches, 31.1 grams.92489 troy oz. Fine silver.900 fine.  50,000 pieces 38mm, 1.5 inches gold plated bronze.  650,000 pieces 38mm, 1.5 inches bronze.

This is the medal that launched my collecting interest in Statue of Liberty medals.  I erroneously thought that this was the first medal produced by the United States Mint depicting the Statue of Liberty.  That distinction belongs to the Mint's medal of the Secretary of the Treasury in 1918, William Gibbs McAdoo.  However, I was correct on my second reason for purchasing the intemediate sized gold medal.  It is the first medal produced in gold by the United States Mint that was made available to the public!

This is G8-26 in John Gabriel's Exonumia of Liberty Enlightening the World

Item record created March 3, 2009.
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2 Comments on this Item

I have a collection of these as well as other designs like george washington...but am wondering how to tell which are gold and which are gold plated. The president designs sometimes have a year and sometimes don't. Could this be a clue?

—angela, March 25, 2010 at 4:25 p.m.

To my knowledge the only gold plated medal produced by the ARBC was the ARBC medal depicted. It was plated over both silver and bronze.

The medals with the Presidents Washington, Adams, and Jefferson were only done in silver and bronze, I think.

Very difficult to discern them, I agree, since they are vitually identical in all respects.

I don't understand what you mean by "a year".

Paul Lajoie

—1876todatestatueofliberty, March 26, 2010 at 11:01 a.m.

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