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Extensive information on the issues of the Society of Medalists can be found in the new book American Art Medals, 1909-1995 by David T. Alexander available from The American Numismatic Society. All are struck bronze, unless otherwise specified.

Issue 1, 1930 by Laura Gardin Fraser: STEADY - Hunter and dog / Ruffled grouse, $150. Silver, $425.

Issue 2, 1930 by Paul Manship: HAIL TO DIONYSUS WHO FIRST DISCOVERED THE MAGIC OF THE GRAPE - Dionysus / Satyrs treading grapes, $300. Silver, $600.

Issue 3, 1931 by Hermon A. MacNeil: PRAYER FOR RAIN – Indians running / HOPI - Snake dance, $150. Silver (lowest mintage in silver; only 25 issued), $495.

Issue 4, 1931 by Frederick MacMonnies: CHARLES A. LINDBERGH / Lone Eagle allegory, $185.

Issue 5, 1932 by         Lee Lawrie: WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH – Man sowing / THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP – Sickel and grain, $99. Silver, $425.

Issue 6, 1932 by John Flanagan: APHRODITE – Head right / SWIFT RUNNERS – Runner taking torch, $110. Silver, $495.

Issue 7, 1933 by Carl Paul Jennewein: GLORIA - Cherub / FAMA – Cicada, $80. Silver, $450.

Issue 8, 1933 by         Gaetano Cecere: Pegasus and men / THERE IS NO EASY WAY FROM THE EARTH TO THE STARS – Mountain and stars, $120. Silver, $450.

Issue 9, 1934 by Herbert Adams: OH WHAT ARE THE PRIZES WE PERISH TO WIN - Nude boy fishing / TO THE FIRST LITTLE SHINER WE CAUGHT WITH A PIN – Fish, $75.

Issue 10, 1934 by Albert Laessle: AMERICA – Turkey / ABUNDANCE – Corn, $99.

Issue 11, 1935 by Lorado Taft: ONTARIO SENDS GREETINGS TO THE SEA – Female head right / ONTARIO, MICHIGAN, HURON, SUPERIOR, ERIE - Five maidens, $99.

Issue 12, 1935 by Anthony de Francisci: FIAT VITA – Creation / Swirling universe, $99.

Issue 13, 1936 by R. Tait McKenzie: REJOICE OH YOUNG MAN IN THY YOUTH – Nude youth putting the shot / Four runners, $199.

Issue 14, 1936 by Albert Stewart: PEACE – Angel flying left / MAN SEEKS TO TURN FROM THE SAVAGERY OF WAR - Ploughman and crosses, $69.

Issue 15, 1937 by Robert I. Aitken: OMNIA VINCIT AMOR – Lovers / ALL MANKIND LOVE A LOVER – Lovers, $125.

Issue 16, 1937 by Chester Beach: IN PEACE SONS BURY THEIR FATHERS – Nude men carrying bier / IN WAR THE FATHERS BURY THEIR SONS – Old man bearing young corpse, $150.

Issue 17, 1938 by A. Stirling Calder, THE DANCE OF LIFE BEGINS EARLY AND GOES ON – Mother and infant / WITH PLEASURE, PAIN AND THE PROTAGONIST – Nude man and two women, $70.

Issue 18, 1938 by Gertrude K. Lathrop: CONSERVE WILDLIFE – Wood duck / Antelope, $70.

Issue 19, 1939 by Edward McCartan: THE OLD WORLD 1939 – Mother and child; Horsemen of the Apocalypse / THE NEW WORLD 1939 – Mother and child, skyscrapers, $75.

Issue 20, 1939 by John Gregory: CERE'S BLESSING SO IS ON YOU – Woman’s head, right / SCARCITY AND WAR SHALL SHUN YOU – Rose, $70.

Issue 21, 1940 by Edmond Amateis: THE DOVES ELECT A HAWK THEIR KING – Hawk with dove in talons / LOSE THE SUBSTANCE FOR THE SHADOW – Dog looking at reflection in water, $60.

Issue 22, 1940 by Walker Hancock: THERE WILL BE OTHER TOWERS FOR THEE TO BUILD – Two nude men building / Stump and saplings, $195.

Issue 23, 1941 by Joseph E. Renier: PRO PATRIA - Woman and child / PRO HUMANITATE – Prometheus, $65.

Issue 24, 1941 by Edwin Springweiler: GREELY, BARTLETT, PEARY, ARCTIC - Polar bear / PALMER, WILKES, BYD, ELLSWORTH, ANTARCTIC – Penguins, $99.

Issue 25, 1942 by Janet Decoux: THOU SLUGGARD – Woman crouching / GO TO THE ANT, CONSIDER HER WAYS, AND BE WISE – Ants, $99.

Issue 26, 1942 by Brenda Putman: Nude man with airplane / FLIGHT – Bird, $110.

ISSUE 27, 1943 by Anna Hyatt Huntington: AFRICA – Elephant / WATER HOLE – Animals at water hole, $275 (in XF: $200).

Issue 28, 1943 by Carl L. Schmitz: FREEDOM OF SPEECH & RELIGION – People speaking and praying / FREEDOM FROM WANT AND FROM FEAR – Man with produce and woman with child, $99.

Issue 29, 1944 by Richard Recchia: ALL PASSES, ART ALONE ENDURING STAYS TO US; THE BUST OUTLASTS THE THRONE, THE COIN TIBERIUS – Bust of man / TOO LOW THEY BUILD WHO BUILD BENEATH THE STARS – Nude woman reaching up, $175 (73 mm. bronze, $500).

Issue 30,1944 by Mahonri Young: RIGGERS - Riggers / RIVETERS – Riveters, $135,

Issue 31, 1945: Rene P. Chambellan: IN TRIUMPH SHALL WAVE - Flag raising on Iwo Jima / FOR CONQUER WE MUST – Sword, $125.

Issue 32, 1945 by Berthold Nebel: Wounded soldier / WORLD UNITY OR OBLIVION - Atomic bomb explosion, $99.

Issue 33, 1946 by Joseph Kiselewski: WORLD PEACE – Woman in front of globe / PEACE ON EARTH AMONG MEN OF GOOD WILL - Dove and olive branch, $49.

Issue 34, 1946 by Sidney Waugh: HAPPY ARE THOSE WHOM PRIVACY MAKES INNOCENT – Man and woman / To Be Nameless In Worthy Deed Exceeds An Infamous History – Horse being shoed, $49.

Issue 35, 1947 by Bruce Moore: ETERNAL VIGILANCE – Deer and faun / DESTRUCTION – Vulture, $49.

Issue 36, 1947 by Henry Kreis: THE WISE VIRGINS – nun and other women standing / THE FOOLISH VIRGINS – women tanding and sitting, with cat and fog, $39.

Issue 37, 1948 by Michael Lantz: BLESSED ARE THE MEEK FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH - John the Baptist baptizing Christ / Salome with the head of John the Baptist, $75.

Issue 38, 1948 by Thomas Lo Medico: PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS – family farming / GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN - men working, $60.

Issue 39, 1949 by Adolph A. Weinman: GENESIS – God and Adam / WEB OF DESTINY – Sybile enthroned, $75.

Issue 40, 1949 by Leo Friedlander: HARMONY - woman with lyre/ CREATES TRANQUILITY – rural scene, $55.

Issue 41, 1950 by Donal Hord: MAN MUST SOW – nude Indian sowing, spirits above /TO REAP – Indian sitting on arc above crops, $115.

Issue 42, 1950 by Cecil Howard: PEACE IS LIFE – mother, father and infant/ WAR IS DEATH – skull, $90.

Issue 43, 1951 by Albert A. Wein: IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH – God creating Adam and Eve/ AND GOD SAW EVERYTHING THAT HE HAD MADE, AND, BEHOLD, IT WAS VERY GOOD – God seated with compass, $60.

Issue 44, 1951 by Wheeler Williams: Mother and child / PEACE ON EARTH – lamb, $55.

Issue 45, 1952 by James Earl Fraser: PONY EXPRESS, TEN DAYS TO SAN FRANCISCO – man on horseback firing gun / NEW FRONTIERS – covered wagon, $215 (VF+ $125).

Issue 46, 1952 by Karl Gruppe: BUILDING TOWARD UNITY, YOUTH OF THE SCOUT WORLD –Boy Scouts / eagle, $100.

Issue 47, 1953: Gifford MacGregor Proctor: Fish / Dry fly lure, $90.

Issue 48, 1953 by Peter Dalton: TO DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY, BEHOLD HOW GOOD AND HOW PLEASANT IT IS FOR BRETHREN – two nude men / THEY SHALL BEAT THEIR SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES - plough, $60.

Issue 49, 1954 by Abram Beiskie: nude woman with Pegasus, statue of Minerva / THIS ABOVE ALL TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE – hand with sculptor's tools, $85.

Issue 50, 1954 by Ivan Mestrovic: THE PHILOSOPHER IN THE GRIP OF INSPIRATION – Plato with boy / SOCRATES DISCUSSING WITH HIS DISCIPLES – Socrates with men, $95.

Issue 51, 1955 by Malvina Hoffman: PROCLAIMING LIBERTY EVERY ONE TO HIS BROTHER – four men of different races / EVERY MAN IS A PIECE OF THE CONTINENT, NO MAN IS AN ISLAND ENTIRE OF ITSELF – global map, $90.

Issue 52, 1955 by Georg Lober: HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 1805 1955 – bust, left / ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY - Swan, $39.

Issue 53, 1956 by John Angel: THE WOMAN TEMPTED ME AND I DID EAT - Adam and Eve / BLESSED ART THOU AMONG WOMEN – Annunciation, $60.

Issue 54, 1956 by Paul Fjelde: OUT OF THE CRADLE ENDLESSLY ROCKING, 1819 WALT WHITMAN 1892 – bust, left / LEAVES OF GRASS FIRST PUBLICATION 1855 – bird on branch, $45.

Issue 55, 1957 by Pietro Montana: BLESSED ARE THEY WHO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER HOLINESS - St. Francis of Assisi at prayer / WHERE THERE IS DESPAIR, LET ME BRING HOPE - St. Francis and leper, $70.

Issue 56, 1957 by Donald De Lue: WHAT IS MAN THAT THOU ART MINDFUL OF HIM – creation of the universe / IN THE IMAGE OF GOD CREATED HIM HE – creation of man, $320.

Issue 57, 1958 by Charles Rudy: THE YEAR'S AT THE SPRING - man with plough / AND DAY’S AT THE MORN – woman with goose, $55.

Issue 58, 1958 by Jean de Marco: Clown with horn / MUSIC DRAMA – lyre, masks, $55.

Issue 59, 1959 by Allan Rouser: APACHE FIRE DANCER – Indian dancing with swords / APACHE BUFFALO HUNT – Indian on horseback with bow and arrows, bison, $235.

Issue 60, 1959 by Katherine Weems: GOD MADE THE BEAST – puma / AND EVERY WINGED FOWL - geese, $70.

Issue 61, 1960 by Leo Lentelli: ROMVLVS AND REMVS SPQR – Romulus and Remus / IN HOC SIGNO VINCES CONSTANTINVS AVG – Constantine the Great, $70.

Issue 62, 1960 by Adlai S. Hardin: YE SHALL FIND THE BABE WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHES AND LYING IN A MANGER – Nativity / three wise men, $70.

Issue 63, 1961 by Adolph Block: “THEY FOUND FREEDOM TO WORSHIP GOD” – Pilgrims  / “ARMED IN THE HOLY CAUSE OF LIBERTY” – George Washington, $65.

Issue 64, 1961 by Nat Chote: LET HIM NOT BOAST WHO PUTS HIS ARMOR ON – Goliath / AS HE WHO PUTS IT OFF, THE BATTLE DONE – David, $60.

Issue 65, 1962 by Oronzio Malderelli: DANCERS – nude women dancing / BATHERS – nude women with ball, $69.

Issue 66, 1962 by Carl Mose: THIS IS OUR LAND – man with tree trunk / THIS OUR HERITAGE – family with grain, $39.

Issue 67, 1963 by Karen Worth: AS ASPRA PER ASPERA – man on star / THE SPIRIT OF THE SPACE AGE – male figure with sun, male and female, $85.

Issue 68, 1963 by Joseph A. Coletti: THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD – angels / AND THE FIRMAMENT SHEWETH HIS HANDYWORK - great frigate bird, $55.

Issue 69, 1964 by Robert A. Weinman: HONOR TO SOCRATES, PLATO, ARTISTOTLE, BURTON, LOCKE, SCHOPENHAUER, NIETZSCHE, FREUD, AND ALL THOSE WHO HAVE HELPED MAN TO UNDERSTAND HIS GREATEST ENIGMA, HIMSELF – Socrates / IN UNDERSTANDING LIGHT THE SPECTERS DIE – nude male with lamp, $100.

Issue 70, 1964 by Frank Eliscu: Underwater swimmer / Seascape, $70.

Issue 71, 1965 by Margaret Grigor: ALASKA – Inuits / HAWAII – Hawaiians, $70.

Issue 72, 1965 by Elizabeth Weistrop: Sower of the Forest – squirrel / squirrels, $70.

Issue 73, 1966 by Robert Lohman: nature – face and figure with leaves / THE PERENNIALLY CREATIVE INSPIRATION -  people, $55.

Issue 74, 1966 by Ralph J. Menconi: WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT … - Thomas Jefferson / THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS – woman with symbols, $65.

Issue 75, 1967 by Herring Coe; Hippocampus and mermaid / BEYOND THE SKY AND BENEATH THE SEA ARE KNOWN BUT TO GOD AND FANTASY - flying saucer, $75.

Issue 76, 1967 by Donald R. Miller: Five forms of life / IN WILDNESS IS THE PRESERVATION OF THE WORLD: THOREAU - trees, $55.

Issue 77, 1968 by Nina Winkel: Girls dancing / Boys building, $50.

Issue 78, 1968 by Terry Iles: PERSEVERANCE AND DEDICATION – man with microscope / spider and web, $45.

Issue 79, 1969 by Bruno Mankowski: AMERICAN FOLKLORE: PAVL BVNYAN – Paul Bunyon with ax / JOHNNY APPLESEED – Johnny Appleseed, $55.

Issue 80, 1969 by Boris Buzan: MAN’S EVER EXPANDING SPHERE OF EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND VISION - space control room / LEADS TO MAN’S ETERNAL QUEST OF SPACE EXPLORATION, APOLLO 11, NEIL ARMSTRONG, EDWIN E. ALDRIN, MICHAEL COLLINS - astronaut on moon, $70.

Issue 81, 1970 by Julian Hoke Harris: 1848 JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS 1908 - Brer Rabbit in briar patch / UNCLE REMUS, HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS – tar baby, rabbit, fox, $60.

Issue 82, 1970 by Tom Allen, Jr.: Flame of life/ PRO VITA, TERRA, AQVA, AER 1970, $39.

Issue 83, 1971 by Hal Reed: ALBERT EINSTEIN, ERNEST RUTHERFORD, NIELS BOHR, OTTO HAHN - four heads, left / UNLEASHING THE ATOM – bound man, loosed man,$70.

Issue 84, 1971 by Elbert Weinberg: PANDORA ONE – four heads right / PANDORA TWO - Atomic cloud, $70.

Issue 85, 1972 by Sten Jacobsson: Christ and multitude / Pagan joys, $30.

Issue 86, 1972 by John Edward Svenson: CHILKAT – chieftan / TLINGIT INDIANS ALASKA – totem pole, $60.

Issue 87, 1973 by Mico Kaufman: Nude youth with guitar / Soldier carrying wounded, $50.

Issue 88, 1973 by Edward R. Grove: THE ALPHABET - Alphabets of the world / English alphabet, $60.

Issue 89, 1974 by Laszlo Ispanky: SPRING WIND – nude woman / AUTUMN WIND – shirtless man, $50.

Issue 90, 1974 by Stanley Bleifeld: Chinese philosophers / Chinese landscape, $80.

Issue 91, 1975 by Frederick Shrady: PRISON WALLS CANNOT CONTROL THE FLIGHT OF THE SOUL - bird in flight / COURAGE AND HOPE - two figures, $60.

Issue 92, 1975 by Bruno Lucchesi: Couple embracing / Mother and baby, $75.

Issue 93, 1976 by Harvey Weiss: ALL CREATURES - grasshopper / GREAT AND SMALL – whale, $75.

Issue 94, 1976 by Anthony Notaro: PILGRIMS ARE WE ALL – Pilgrims / MAYFLOWER – sailing ship, $75.

Issue 95, 1977 by Harry Marinsky: Youth dreaming / Castle in Spain.

Issue 96, 1977 by Stephen Robin: Tutankhamun / Egyptian pectoral, $95.

Issue 97, 1978 by Robert Cook: Music / Dance, $70.

Issue 98, 1978 by Moissaya Marans: DAWN – woman and child / DUSK – two women mourning, $65.

Issue 99, 1979 by Donald A. Borja: UNSHACKLE THE BONDS OF HELIOS – nude male with planets / SOLAR ENERGY, TOMORROW’S FUTURE: nude male with four horses, $80.

Issue 100, 1979 by Linda Harper: LAUGHTER, MUSIC FROM THE HEART – smiling clowns / TEARS PURIFY THE SOUL – frowning clowns, $70.

Issue 101, 1980 by Marcel Jovine: TO THE DREAMER OF DREAMS – unicorn / medieval procession, $135.

Issue 102, 1980 by Edward Fenno Hoffman III: LEWIS CARROL’S ALICE IN WONDERLAND, CROQUET – Alice with rabbit, flamingo and hedgehog / WINNIE-THE-POOH BY A. A. MILNE, CHRISTOPHER ROBIN EXPLAINS, $70.

Issue 103, 1981 by Laci de Gerenday: PRESERVE OUR HERITAGE – cougar / deer in woods, $70.

Issue 104, 1981 by Elizabeth Gordon Chandler: ENRICHMENT OF LIFE, VISUAL ARTS – woman painting, man sculpting / PERFORMING ARTS – ballerina and swan, $60.

Issue 105, 1982 by John Cook: ET ERUDITA VANITAS – man with mask / INGENITA LEVITAS – faun with skull, $90.

Issue 106, 1982 by Don Everhart II: Dolphins / DANCE OF THE DOLPHINS -  dolphins and trident, $85.

Issue 107, 1983 by Joseph Di Lorenzo: CAMELOT – castle / EXCALIBUR - Arthur with sword, $80.

Issue 108, 1983 by Carter Jones: George Balanchine / GEORGE BALANCHINE, CHOREOGRAPHER 1904-83 – dancers, $80.

Issue 109, 1984 by Dexter Jones: CLOWN – clown / HARLEQUIN COLUMBINE – Harlequin, Columbine, $70.

Issue 110, 1984 by Margaret C. Ellison: Bands of Animals / Zodiac, $80.

Issue 111, 1985 by Donald De Lue: Man bursting the bounds / back of man, $750.

Issue 112, 1985 by Richard McDermott Miller: ESCAPE – nude girl escaping man / CAPTURE – nude man capturing girl, $295.

Issue 113, 1986 by Marika Somogyi: Woman looking in mirror / Devil watching through mirror, $325.

Issue 114, 1986 by Alex Shagin: Children circling globe / Earth from space, $195.

Issue 115, 1987 by Robert A. Weinman: Cat and mouse / cat behind cheese

Issue 116, 1987 by Robert Cronbach: Sunrise / moonrise, $195.

Issue 117, 1988 by Leonda Finke: The Prodigal Son – departure / emotional reunion, $495.

Issue 118, 1988 by Patrica Lewis-Verani: Eskimo and dog sled  / Arab on camel, $195.

Issue 119, 1989 by Nicola d'Alton Moss: Charles Darwin / Galapagos turtle, $495.

Issue 120, 1989 by Keiichi Uryu: Man is Strength / Woman is Love and Beauty, $575.

Issue 121, 1990 by Eugene Daub: Spirit of fire / spirit of ice, $295.

Issue 122, 1990 by Marcel Jovine: Evolution / Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, $195.

Issue 123, 1991 by Michael Meszaros: Winding staircase / staircase looking down, $195.

Issue 124, 1992 by Joseph Sheppard: Icarus in flight toward the sun / Icarus in free fall, $295.

Issue 125, 1993 by Don Everhart III: Tyrannosaurus Rex / Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil, $275.

Issue 126, 1993 by Karen Worth: Adam and Eve / Retribution, $325.

Issue 127, 1994 by Amanullah Haiderzad: The Old Kabul Bazaar, $295.

Issue 128, 1994 by Don Everhart III: Set of six dinosaur medals / dinosaur fossils, $1,200.

Issue 129, 1995 by Geri Gould: Last Supper, Nativity, Baptism, Crucifixion, and Resurrection, $295.

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