Medal - Ku Klux Klan
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Features
| Location |
United States
 |
|---|---|
| Issuing entity | Ku Klux Klan |
| Type | Membership medals |
| Year | 1922 |
| Composition | Mosiądz |
| Diameter | 28 mm |
| Shape | Okrągły |
| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Number | N# 482275 |
| References | Birdsell# KK-215 Dale E. Birdsell; 1981. Ku Klux Klan Tokens (2nd Edition). Research Associates, Grand Bay, Alabama, United States. |
Obverse
(en) A Klansman rides a horse carrying a flaming cross, facing right
Script: łaciński
Lettering:
NON SILBA SED ANTHOR
1922
Reverse
Script: łaciński
Lettering:
I WOULD RATHER BE
A KLANSMAN IN A ROBE OF
SNOWY WHITE, - THAN A
CATHOLIC PRIEST IN A ROBE AS
BLACK AS NIGHT, -
FOR A KLANSMAN IS AN
AMERICAN AND AMERICA IS
HIS HOME, BUT THE
PRIEST OWES HIS
ALLIGIANCE TO
A DAGO POPE
IN ROME
Comments
(en)
There are two type of this particular piece one with the lines breaking the script in the reverse and one without TC-396759. Can be found in several different metals - Aluminum, Brass, Copper, and Nickel
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| 1922 | |||||||||||||||
Numista Rarity index: 97
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