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Sell or Auction Your Hubbard Medal for up to Over $12,500 or More at Nate D. Sanders Auctions

ByNate D Sanders December 31, 2019August 11, 2021

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FREE ESTIMATE. To buy, auction, sell or consign your National Geographic Hubbard Medal that is for sale, please email your description and photos to [email protected] of Nate D. Sanders Auctions (http://www.NateDSanders.com).

Sell Your Hubbard Medal at Nate D. Sanders Auctions

The Hubbard Medal has been presented by National Geographic for exceptional advancements in exploration, research and discovery since 1906. Some of the first recipients included arctic explorers Robert Peary and Sir Ernest Shackleton. Other more recent recipients include John Young, Robert Crippen, Jane Goodall and Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Below is a recent realized price for a Hubbard Medal. We at Nate D. Sanders Auctions can obtain up to this amount or more for you:

Hubbard Medal Circa 1970s. Sold for Over $12,500.

Nate D. Sanders Auctions has sold the following memorabilia:

Prestigious Gold Enrico Fermi Award Presented to Physicist Leon Lederman in 1992 — One of the Greatest U.S. Honors to Scientific Achievement

The Enrico Fermi Award presented to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman in 1992. The Fermi Award, first given in 1956, honors scientists from around the world for their lifetime achievements, with many of the recipients also winning Nobel Prizes. Medal features a relief portrait of Enrico Fermi, with his name and the years of his birth and death. ”SCIENTIA PROGRESSUS” is also engraved on front, which translates from Latin to ”the progress of science”. Verso reads: ”PRESENTED TO / LEON LEDERMAN / FOR ESPECIALLY MERITORIOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT, USE, OR CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY / 1992” and is framed by the words, ”DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”. Gold-plated medal weighs 324 grams or 11.4 ounces, and measures 3” in diameter. Case measures 5.25” x 5.25” x 1.5”. Very small mark on front of medal on Fermi’s lapel. Near fine condition. With an LOA by Leon Lederman. Sold for $25,000.

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Enrico Fermi Award Presented to Physicist Leon Lederman. Click to enlarge.

Auction your Hubbard Medal at Nate D. Sanders Auctions. Send a description and images of your Hubbard Medal to us at [email protected].

Apollo 11 Space-Flown Robbins Medal — From the Jack Swigert Estate

Robbins medal flown aboard Apollo 11, the mission that first put humans on the moon on 20 July 1969. Coin includes mission name and depicts the mission insignia of an eagle landing on the moon’s surface carrying an olive branch. Verso has three dates for the launch, ”July 16, 1969”, landing, ”July 20, 1969” and return, ”July 24, 1969”. Verso also has each astronaut’s last name and the ”178” serial number engraved. Coin measures 1”, made of sterling silver and housed in its original ”Robbins Company” plastic box with serial number sticker on the bottom. Very good condition. From the Jack Swigert estate and with an LOA from his sister. Sold for $25,000.

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Apollo 11 Space-Flown Robbins Medal. Click to enlarge.
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LOA for Apollo 11 Space-Flown Robbins Medal. Click to enlarge.

Consign your Hubbard Medal at Nate D. Sanders Auctions. Send a description and images of your Hubbard Medal to us at [email protected].

Ernest Shackleton & Crew Signed “The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909” Limited to Just 300 Copies, This Being All Three Volumes — Scarce

Ernest Shackleton’s signed copy of “The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, 3 volumes (including “The Antarctic Book Winter Quarters 1907-09”), limited to 300 copies (here #273), also with signatures of the entire Shore party. Photogravure frontispiece, numerous plates (including 6 etched plates by George Marston, 16 tipped-in color after George Marston, others mostly photographic), one folding panorama and three folding lithographed maps in pocket at the end of volume three, illustrations and diagrams in the text. In publisher’s vellum, blocked in gilt with design of two penguins and top edges gilt. Occasional light spotting and small tear on cover of volume two. Overall in very good to near fine condition, signed by the Nimrod Shore Party crew. Sold for $12,718.

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Ernest Shackleton & Crew Signed “The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909”. Click to enlarge.

FREE ESTIMATE. To buy, auction, sell or consign your National Geographic Hubbard Medal that is for sale, please email your description and photos to [email protected] of Nate D. Sanders Auctions (http://www.NateDSanders.com).

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Do you have a high-value item that you would like to get the maximum price possible? If so, please call us at (310) 440-2982 or use the form below. A representative of Nate D. Sanders Auctions will contact you concerning your items.

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