FINEST & ONLY ONE NGC & PCGS MS63 1963 JOHN KENNEDY GERMANY SILVER MEDAL TONED

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PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA !
1963 JOHN (JACK) FITZGERALD KENNEDY "
WELCOME IN GERMANY
" MEDAL!
"FINEST" & "ONLY ONE" AT BOTH NGC & PCGS !
PCGS MS63 !
"TOP POP"
NO OTHER IN ANY GRADE AT BOTH PCGS & NGC!
VERY NICE ORIGINAL TONING OF GLOWING GOLDS AND SUBTLE BLUE SKIES !
A VERY WELL STRUCK & BOLDLY DETAILED PIECE OF SPLENDID GERMAN NUMISMATIC ART WORK!
NOT CALLING "RARE", BUT.... IT IS THE ONLY ONE WE HAVE EVER SEEN IN ANY CONDITION!
FOR THE VERY FESTIVE VISIT OF UNITED STATES PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY IN JUNE 1963 TO BERLIN GERMANY,
PROFESSOR ALBERT HOLL
DESIGNED THIS VERY SPECIAL "MATTE" FINISH COMMEMORATIVE SILVER MEDAL.
WITH AN OBVERSE J.F.K. PORTRAIT THAT IS SOMEWHAT HAUNTING & VERY ALIVE LOOKING. HE APPEARS TO BE STARING STRAIGHT INTO YOUR EYES, WITH A LOOK OF SLIGHT PLEADING APPEAL.
PROFESSOR HOLL
MYSTERIOUSLY
CAPTURED A LOOK OF "
THEY KILLED ME
" 5 FULL MONTHS "BEFORE" THEY ACTUALLY ASSASSINATED HIM.
SIGNED BY "HOLL" AT LOWER OBVERSE KENNEDY BUST.
STRUCK ON A LARGE SPECIAL "MATTE" FINISHED SILVER PLANCHET OF 39.5 MM DIAMETER, LARGER THAN A U.S. SILVER DOLLAR.
THE REVERSE DISPLAYS A BEAUTIFUL GERMAN FEDERAL EAGLE AND THREE COATS OF ARMS OF BONN, BERLIN AND FRANFURT, GERMANY.
THE SPECIAL "
WELCOME IN GERMANY
" J.F.K. PRESIDENTIAL SILVER MEDALS WERE COINED AT THE OLD MINTS IN STUTTGART & KARLSRUHE GERMANY.
THEY WERE ONLY AVAILABLE UPON DEMAND TO PAYING CUSTOMERS WHOM SOUGHT THEM OUT AT THE TWO MINTS.
THIS (JUNE 1963) WAS A VERY SPECIAL OCCASION FOR PRESIDENT KENNEDY & GERMANY, HE HAD AN ADMIRATION OF THE GERMAN PEOPLES THAT DATED BACK MANY, MANY YEARS PRIOR:
"
On June 30, 1937 John F. ”Jack” Kennedy embarked on a two-and-a-half-month tour of Europe
with his friend Kirk LeMoyne “
Lem
” Billings aboard the S.S. Washington.
They both kept diaries
documenting, in words and pictures, their adventures, mishaps, and observations along the way."
Diary excerpt from LEM:  August 17, 1937 – Innsbruck – Munich
"Hitler seems very popular here – you can’t help but like a dictator when you are in his own country – as you hear so many wonderful things about him and really not too many bad things"
John F. Kennedy juggling in Nuremberg, Germany, 20 August 1937
Lem’s caption: Jugglin’ Jack
PCGS CERTIFICATION INFORMATION:
PCGS #
673404.63/34968378
Date, mintmark
1963
Denomination
Medal
Variety
John F. Kennedy Silver
Country
Germany-Federal Rep
Grade
MS63
Holder Type
PCGS Gold Shield
Population
1
Pop Higher
0
President John F. Kennedy
openly admired Nazi Germany when he toured the country as a young man, according to a new book marking the 50th anniversary of
his
historic 1963 visit to Cold War West Berlin.
The views once held by one of America’s most esteemed presidents,
who won Berlin's heart in 1963 when he declared “Ich bin ein Berliner”
, are recorded in diaries and letters Kennedy wrote on three visits to Germany in 1937, 1939 and 1945.
"After visiting Hitler’s bomb-damaged Bavarian Berghof residence and his Eagle’s Nest mountain retreat,
Kennedy
noted in his diary:
“Anyone who has visited these places can imagine how in a few years, Hitler will emerge from the hate that now surrounds him and come to be regarded as one of the most significant figures ever to have lived.” He adds: “There was something mysterious about the way he lived and died which will outlive him and continue to flourish. He was made of the stuff of legends.”
John F. Kennedy and two German soldiers near Mt. Vesuvius, Italy, 8 August 1937
AN BEAUTIFUL, BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING, & HISTORIC GERMAN-AMERICAN SILVER MEDAL !
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