"1781" AE Medal Betts-593, Barre Restrike MS(PCGS#545229)

The Summer 2022 Global Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

1011

等级

SP66BN

价格

24,821

详细说明

Stunning Superb Gem Daniel Morgan at Cowpens Medal "1781" (post-1839) General Daniel Morgan, Battle of the Cowpens Medal. Dies by Jean-Jacques Barre, after Dupre. Adams-Bentley 10, Betts-593, Julian MI-7. Bronze. Specimen-66 BN (PCGS). 56 mm. An exquisite specimen of perhaps the most beautiful design in the entire Comitia Americana series. The surfaces are lustrous medium brown, with some mint color preserved within the multistep rim. The reverse field shows some reflectivity, not the often-seen, heavier, non-reflective bronzed patina. A little planchet fissure crosses the rim below the right end of the reverse exergual line, but this piece is both well made and well preserved. The tiniest bruise is seen in the high wire rim above the space between DANIELI and MORGAN on the obverse. This specimen was coined from exactingly produced copy dies made at the Paris Mint in 1839. The dies were shipped to Philadelphia and put into use there, but some examples may have been struck at the Paris Mint before shipment. This is a choice example of this famous Comitia Americana issue, one whose originals are extraordinarily rare and almost never encountered. Provenance: From the Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation. Earlier from our Baltimore Auction of November 2015, lot 22489. Click here for 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.