Unusual Retirement Medal

After watching the Badgers win the first Big Ten Hockey championship my Ohio fan wife and I checked out a few antique malls on the way home. That is when I found this retirement medal from the Deluxe Corporation, named to one of it’s employees with 19 years of service. The medal is 77mm in diameter and is made of 8 ounces of pure silver! Makes me wonder why they made a silver medal weighing 8 ounces instead of 1, 5 or 10 ounces? Nice medal for only 19 years.