PAA on medal?

Anybody know what the inscription on this Alexander the Great medal
might be? A Google search for PAA turned up lots of organizations
abbreviated such but nothing I could connect this piece to.

http://rg.cointalk.org/misc/Medal_Alex.html

Reid Goldsborough wrote:
Anybody know what the inscription on this Alexander the Great medal
might be?

You call this a "medal"? I call it a replica. It is apparently a cast
replica, made by pressing a genuine tetradrachma into clay, and adding
the obverese inscription. Tool away the obverse inscription, retone
it, and it becomes a forgery. If it is pure silver (rather than pewter
or pot metal) it might be worth a dollar as scrap.

Do you _own_ this (for lack of a better word) "object"?

Michael
ANA R-162953

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:27:59 -0400, Reid Goldsborough
wrote:

Anybody know what the inscription on this Alexander the Great medal
might be? A Google search for PAA turned up lots of organizations
abbreviated such but nothing I could connect this piece to.

http://rg.cointalk.org/misc/Medal_Alex.html

It stands for Persian Automobile Association :.)
Barry
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On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:01:34 +0000, Barry
wrote:

It stands for Persian Automobile Association :.)

Can I quote you on that? g Someone else suggested the letters might
be Cyrillic, but I don't have a clue how to search this way. I just
bought this piece on eBay. It's part of a little exonumia collection
of Alexander tetradrachm pieces I have, which also include the 2000
F.U.N. show medal. I mention this because I know how fascinated you
are by all this. g

Reid Goldsborough wrote:
... Someone else suggested the letters might
be Cyrillic, but I don't have a clue how to search this way. I just
bought this piece on eBay. It's part of a little exonumia collection
of Alexander tetradrachm pieces I have, which also include the 2000
F.U.N. show medal.

So, the easy answer is, yes, you bought this fake coin. So, there is
now a better potential for a cottage industry in Alexander tetradrachm
replicas. We make them; you buy them. You cannot tell Cyrillic
letters from Roman letters of the same shape. (Here is a clue: what
would the J be, then, the left half of a Russian L?) This opens up
more possibilities. Just to make things easier for all concerned,
what is your budget for this year? We can make all you can buy.

Michael
"nothing personal; just business"

"Michael E. Marotta" wrote:

Reid Goldsborough wrote:
... Someone else suggested the letters might
be Cyrillic, but I don't have a clue how to search this way. I just
bought this piece on eBay. It's part of a little exonumia collection
of Alexander tetradrachm pieces I have, which also include the 2000
F.U.N. show medal.

So, the easy answer is, yes, you bought this fake coin. So, there is
now a better potential for a cottage industry in Alexander tetradrachm
replicas. We make them; you buy them. You cannot tell Cyrillic
letters from Roman letters of the same shape. (Here is a clue: what
would the J be, then, the left half of a Russian L?) This opens up
more possibilities. Just to make things easier for all concerned,
what is your budget for this year? We can make all you can buy.

Michael
"nothing personal; just business"

Pittsburgh Athletic Association?

JAM

"J. A. M." wrote:

"Michael E. Marotta" wrote:

Reid Goldsborough wrote:
... Someone else suggested the letters might
be Cyrillic, but I don't have a clue how to search this way. I just
bought this piece on eBay. It's part of a little exonumia collection
of Alexander tetradrachm pieces I have, which also include the 2000
F.U.N. show medal.

So, the easy answer is, yes, you bought this fake coin. So, there is
now a better potential for a cottage industry in Alexander tetradrachm
replicas. We make them; you buy them. You cannot tell Cyrillic
letters from Roman letters of the same shape. (Here is a clue: what
would the J be, then, the left half of a Russian L?) This opens up
more possibilities. Just to make things easier for all concerned,
what is your budget for this year? We can make all you can buy.

Michael
"nothing personal; just business"

Pittsburgh Athletic Association?

JAM

http://www.phlf.org/phlfnews/essays/...es/Image6.html

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 13:38:39 GMT, "J. A. M." wrote:

Pittsburgh Athletic Association?

That's as good a guess as any. The piece I bought seems to have been
made by some membership organization with the acronym PAA. Maybe PJ
are the initials for the individual member who this originally
belonged to. And 1964 was the year of membership.

Despite the characteristic looniness about this from Michael, a number
of membership organizations issued membership medals that copied
ancient coins, including the ANA, which it turns out copied the same
coin -- Alexander the Great tetradrachm -- for its membership medals
issued from 1954 through the 1980s.

Reid Goldsborough wrote:
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 13:38:39 GMT, "J. A. M." wrote:


Pittsburgh Athletic Association?


That's as good a guess as any. The piece I bought seems to have been
made by some membership organization with the acronym PAA. Maybe PJ
are the initials for the individual member who this originally
belonged to. And 1964 was the year of membership.

Despite the characteristic looniness about this from Michael, a number
of membership organizations issued membership medals that copied
ancient coins, including the ANA, which it turns out copied the same
coin -- Alexander the Great tetradrachm -- for its membership medals
issued from 1954 through the 1980s.

Royal Academy of Art

Reid Goldsborough wrote:

Pittsburgh Athletic Association?

That's as good a guess as any. The piece I bought seems to have been
made by some membership organization with the acronym PAA. Maybe PJ
are the initials for the individual member who this originally
belonged to. And 1964 was the year of membership.

"PJ" ???

In the image you provided it sure looks like "BJ"....you know, as in "bozo
journalism". Maybe it's found it's true home. ;-)




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