In this special website launch, Jesse Kraft, Assistant Curator of American Numismatics at the American Numismatic Society, introduces the ongoing project to digitise and add historical context to the Medallic Art Co collection, which was purchased by the Society in 2017.
Originally broadcast as part of the Festival of Coins at www.allaboutcoins.co.uk
The Medallic Art Company was founded in New York City around 1907, and for more than a century it produced the work of America’s finest artists, as well as served countless non-profit and for-profit institutions in their desires to produce commemorative, award, and other medals.
