Indian Peace Medals
1829 Andrew Jackson Indian Peace Medal. Bronze. Second Size. First Reverse. Julian IP-15, Prucha-43. MS-65 BN (NGC).
62.4 mm. 1750.4 grains. Deep mahogany bronze with soft gold and pale blue accents in the fields. Satiny, lustrous and very attractive overall with traces of handling but no marks worthy of specific mention. Struck by the original dies used on the silver piece above. On the obverse, the die state is later, with crumbling at the inner rim near 1:00. The dies are certainly the same, however, as a small failure at the T in UNITED is easily seen on both medals. The reverse die, again, is the original that was in use through 1846. A trace of spalling is noted around the leftmost index finger point, on the rim left of the cuff and above the tomahawk head. While bronze impressions are certainly more common, they are much more frequently seen from the second reverse die, cut in 1846. The Ford specimen was from the second reverse. This is a choice and very desirable specimen from these early dies.
Ex Stack's Bowers Galleries, August 2014, lot 3014.
Estimate: $800