Definizione

• Token-medal.  A coin-like medal; single struck and without finish. A token-medal is a usually cheaply made medal often on equipment normally used for striking tokens. Token-medals are made as souvenir or pocket pieces. It is a medal because it does not have a denomination or indication of value. While its design is usually more pictorial than customary tokens, the design is usually limited to what can be accomplished by a tracer controlled pantograph. Only in rare instances were token-medals made from sculptor's models and reduced on a die-engraving pantograph. Thus the relief is usually much lower and its striking is geared to quick production in common metals. Often they are made in a stock size for tokens (never more than two inches); and its finish is usually bright coin finish. It is often classed as a souvenir medal; and some more important ones in silver-dollar size have been designated a so-called dollar.  See art medal.
  Early in World War II a number of token-medals were struck for organizations to give to men and women entering military service. Their inscriptions were patriotic and intended to be carried as a good luck charm.

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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