Medal US Pope Visit 1993

The first order of business in determining value of modern medals like this one is to identify the metallic composition. There are usually three choices: (1) gold, (2) silver, or (3) bronze. If you are not sure, a jeweler can help.

The medal pictured contains one troy ounce of silver. Requester's Kurren's piece is probably bronze, or it could be gold-plated silver. It is very likely not solid gold. The fact that Kurren's medal has a different reverse pattern than that shown makes no difference to value.

To find the base value (BV) of the medal, multiply the precious metal content by the current price of the precious metal. For bronze medals, the BV is zero. For a one ounce silver medal, the BV today is $14.75, but tomorrow it will be different, so look it up at kitco.com.

Once you have BV, it might be appropriate to add a premium, depending on the subject matter of the medal. Pope John Paul is very well beloved, so the premium might be:

worn: value is BV
circulated: value is BV
fully uncircualated: values is BV + $10 US dollars
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Coin: 20764, Genre: Medals, Timeline: Modern
Created (yyyymm): 201602, Last review: 201602
Appearance: Normal round coin Metallic brown Metallic gray Metallic yellow Letters: Latin
Years: sort: 1993, filter: 1993 to 1993
Image: us_pope_visit_1993.jpg
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