Stack's Bowers Galleries

November 2020 Auction  –  11 - 14 November 2020

Stack's Bowers Galleries, November 2020 Auction

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Description

Indian Peace Medals
1871 Ulysses S. Grant Indian Peace Medal. Silver. Julian IP-42, Prucha-53. About Uncirculated.
63.4 mm. 1747.0 grains. Pierced for suspension as issued, with an apparently original silver loop still intact. Attractive pearl gray surfaces with iridescent soft blue and gold mottling throughout the gently prooflike fields. A few scattered marks are seen with magnification, as are series of fine scratches through parts of the legend and close to the inner edge of the ornate design border. Apparent collector's marks on the central reverse in the form of three deliberate square punches in the globe make this an easy specimen to identify among the fairly large number of medals known. We have counted more than 50 distinct specimens of the Grant in silver, but that number includes four unpierced examples that were clearly not intended for issuance among Native Americans. In addition, of those found, 12 are in institutional collections. We have weights recorded for 33 specimens and it seems that the Grant medals were struck to two different weight standards. One group generally weighs around 1500-1530 grains, and this includes 20 of the medals in our survey, including four medals that have recorded Native American provenances. The other medals are of a heavier standard, ranging from approximately 1707 to 1922 grains. Both standards are included in the present collection. They are struck from the same dies and there is no determinable difference in the die states between them.
Ex Stack’s Bowers Galleries, September 2011, lot 98.
Estimate: $5000

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Price realized 70 USD
Starting price 1 USD
Estimate 5'000 USD
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