2025 World’s Fair of Money® Convention Medals & Collectibles : American Numismatic Association

World’s Fair of Money® Convention Medals & Collectibles

A bold bison and a watchful warrior bring Oklahoma’s story to the ANA’s 134th World’s Fair of Money convention medal.

Commemorate the 2025 World’s Fair of Money® with Convention Medals & Collectibles

The American Numismatic Association has invited medallic artists Jamie Franki and Heidi Wastweet to collaborate on designing and sculpting the 2025 World’s Fair of Money® medal for the 134th Annual Convention to be held in Oklahoma City, OK, August 19-23, 2025. Jamie and Heidi previously collaborated on the William Penn World’s Fair of Money medal for Philadelphia in 2018.

This year’s convention medal celebrates Oklahoma City’s connections to Native America and wildlife. In the tradition of James Earle Fraser’s beloved Buffalo nickel, the medal features a First American on the obverse and a bison (the state animal of OK), on the reverse.

Medal Details

The obverse depicts the statue atop the Oklahoma State Capitol building called “The Guardian,” a 17-foot-tall bronze representation of a Native American man, designed by Enoch Kelly Haney and lifted into place June 7, 2002. The monument represents the historic and enduring presence of Native American people in Oklahoma, as well as the state’s diversity and ability to overcome challenges. It is the first state capitol in the nation to be topped by an American Indian figure. The depiction of the monument on the medal is encircled by star elements observed from the Oklahoma State Seal.

The reverse of the medal features bison on the Oklahoma plains. The primary device is a congregation of a stylized bison with five starlings perched upon his back. Five more bison, delineated as open spaces in silhouette, can be seen on the horizon of the Great Plains. The five bison and five starlings symbolize the Fraser buffalo and Franki Bison nickel reverse designs. The Guardian’s spear and two stars also appear on the reverse, tying both sides of the medal together in design and concept. This “speared bison” reverse design was also partially inspired by the famous strike error of the same name, sought after by coin collectors of the 2005 Bison nickel.

About the Artists

Both Heidi and Jamie are alumni of the U.S. Mint’s Artistic Infusion Program. Jamie is well-known as the designer of the 2005 Buffalo nickel reverse and the 2006/Beyond Jefferson nickel obverse. He is one of the most prolific designers of medals for the ANA’s World’s Fair of Money medals program. Heidi served as the president of the American Medallic Sculpture Association and a member of the Citizens’ Coinage Advisory Committee, and was selected as the winner of the 2024 ANA Numismatic Art Award for Excellence in Medallic Sculpture. She has sculpted and designed thousands of coins and medals over the span of a long and impactful career in the medallic arts.

Medals are available in bronze (2.75” medal for $70); or as a two-medal set (1.5” bronze medal and 1.5” silver medal) set for $155.

Convention bars are available for $6.50; or as a bar and pin holder set for $22.50

For large quantity orders, please call (800) 514-2646. Collectible pre-orders are not available for pickup at the show. Collectibles will be mailed after August 30, 2025. We reserve the right to limit quantities. Renderings shown below.