Owner Comments:
This set is called by several different names: production sample set, production run set, process set or progression set.
The focus of this progression set is the high relief 1959 Official Hawaii Statehood medal. It showcases five stages of the medal production effort with an actual medal from each of the five stages. This set contains a blank planchet, medal after first strike, medal after second strike, medal after third strike and completed medal (obverse and reverse).
Picture of the second strike is shown. Note the untrimmed medal (also known as a flange) extending beyond the rim (high relief medals are normally struck without a collar).
Hawaiian Money 2nd edition, 1991, by Medcalf & Russell, page 100, states that only 30 such sets were produced.
The pictured progression set is sealed display plaque and of high quality workmanship. Strike 1, 2 and 3 are NOT uniface medals.These medals struck with both the obverse and reverse design. These strike medals are in bronze without the finished
It is believed that this progression set was a display plaque created by the Medallic Art Company for the Coin and Currency Institute (national distributor of the medal) to showcase the medal and the process to produce them.
Note: An Alaska Statehood Medal progression set also exists in similar sealed display plaque.