1876 Medal GW-888, HK-102 silver Lake Champlain MS(PCGS#642254)
1876 Medal GW-888, HK-102 silver Lake Champlain MS (PCGS#642254)
November 2020 U.S. Coins Auction
- 拍卖行
- Stack's Bowers
- 批号
- 4414
- 等级
- MS65
- 价格
- 22,032
- 详细说明
- Circa 1876 Lake Champlain Medal. George Lovett's Battle Series, No. 5. Musante GW-888, Baker-444, HK-102. Silver. Plain edge. MS-65 (PCGS). 34.0 mm. 230.4 grains. Boldly prooflike with satiny devices and generous bright silver remaining. Both sides exhibit attractive mottled toning, the obverse with considerable pale blue, the reverse accented by deeper golden brown, blue and violet iridescence. Though not toned identically to those that came directly from the Garrett cabinet, this one is equally nice. It probably has an interesting backstory. When the silver Battle Series medals were sold in the 1981 Garrett sale, this issue was missing from the set. Interestingly, this piece sold just one month later in the Kessler-Spangenberger sale. As rare as these medals are in silver, with perhaps just two sets having been struck, it is all but unthinkable that this very medal wasn’t originally the missing Garrett piece, that had somehow found its way out of the cabinet prior to our 1981 sale. We have elected to sell these medals individually due to the popularity of the series among both so-called dollar collectors and Washington medal enthusiasts, and due to the strong prices that these lovely medals are likely to bring. This will allow several collectors the chance to compete for a prize in the series, as few would have ever have imagined a chance to have all of them in silver! This said, the opportunity to keep this set together does in fact present itself here, if that should be what the market for them dictates. Provenance: From the E Pluribus Unum Collection. Earlier from NASCA’s Kessler-Spangenberger Sale, April 1981, lot 1929 (probably earlier from the Garrett Collection). PCGS# 642254. Click herefor certification details from PCGS. Image with the PCGS TrueView logo is obtained from and is subject to a license agreement with Collectors Universe, Inc. and its divisions PCGS and PSA.