Medallic Art Company

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Medallic Art Company, Ltd. based in Dayton, Nevada is “America’s oldest and largest private mint” and specializes in the design and manufacture of medals.^[1] The Medallic Art Company makes custom 2D and 3D medals^[2] and “has produced some of the world’s most distinguished awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, the Peabody Award, the Newbery and Caldecott medals, and the Inaugural medals for eleven U.S. Presidents.”^[3] The Medallic Art Company also struck medals for two important medallic art series in the United States: the Circle of Friends of the Medallion^[4] and The Society of Medalists.^[5]

Henry Weil, “a highly respected French sculptor living in New York City.” founded the Medallic Art Company in 1903.^[6] The Medallic Art Company was originally located in New York and moved to Danbury, Connecticut in 1972, Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 1991 then to Dayton, Nevada in 1997 where it currently operates in a 115,000-square-foot (10,700 m²) facility.^[6]

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Medallic art

[edit] Footnotes

^ Medallic Art Company Ltd. Medallic Art Company, Ltd. Homepage, Medallic Art Company Ltd. website, 2006. Accessed September 9, 2007.
^ Medallic Art Company Ltd. “Custom Medals of Distinction”, Medallic Art Company Ltd. website. Accessed September 9, 2007.
^ Medallic Art Company Ltd. “Medallic Art Prestigious Awards”, Medallic Art Company Ltd. website, 2004. Accessed September 9, 2007.
^ Johnson, D. Wayne. “Circle of Friends of the Medallion”, Medal Collectors of America website, 2004. Accessed September 9, 2007.
^ Reed, Fred. “Enduring Society of Medalists First Issue Continues to Attract Collectors”, Professional Coin Grading Service website, September 9, 1999. Accessed September 9, 2007.
^ ^a ^b Medallic Art Company Ltd. “The History of Medallic Art Company”, Medallic Art Company Ltd. website, 2004. Accessed September 9, 2007.