In one of my previous blog entries I shared a composite image of a numismatic research  find from my original research on the POTUS sGm series. The attached image could be the first photo  to actually have the three dual torch design of Frank Gasparro side-by-side with actual specimens .  The Kennedy and MacArthur  issues are the full size "list medals" and not the smaller re-issued medals. All struck by the U.S. Mint.From Left to right:1960 President Dwight D. Eisenhower appreciation medal1961 President John F. Kennedy inauguration medal1962 General Douglas MacArthur congressional gold medal (struck in bronze)Mr. Gasparro used his dual torch design in three consecutive years on three different medal types (appreciation, inauguration , and congressional).

During the writing of my book, Authoritative Numismatic Reference: Presidential Medal of AppreciationTM Award Medals 1958 - 1963, ISBN: 1511786744, I contacted  the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library & Museum for images of a bronze medal that was awarded from President Eisenhower to then Vice-President Nixon. I felt that is was appropriate to email a working draft Chapter 7 to assist the library in locating this medal. It provided the physical traits and historical information based on previously sequestered White House records.  I also created a rendition of the medal based on these White House Records.

United States Mint® numismatic discoveries has been limited to the physical identification of a new error, new variety, or newly found hoard. The discovery of an entirely undocumented United States Mint® series is virtually unheard of in U.S. numismatics; however this seemingly impossible feat has been achieved. An entire United States Mint® series has been discovered and cataloged for the very first time.