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The E-Sylum: Volume 20, Number 5, January 29, 2017, Article 14

VOCABULARY TERM: MAP SHAPE

Dick Johnson submitted this entry from his Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Terminology. Thanks. -Editor

1928 New York shaped American Legion badge Illinois-shaped badge reverse

Map shapes appear in both solid medals and shell medals. These are both solid medals as part of a badge. The New York medal is for the delegate from that state to a national conference of a fraternal order, the American Legion. The makers mark is on the reverse of the Illinois medal.

Map Shape. Silhouetted medallic items in the shape of some geographic entity, as country, state, province or region. All the states of America have appeared as map shapes, as well as many provinces of Canada and countries of Europe. Those of most unusual shape (as Italy's boot shape) are quite popular. See UNUSUAL SHAPE, SILHOUETTE.
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