Washingtoniana
Circa 1876 Jersey City Sunday Schools Medal. Third Obverse. Musante GW-860, Baker-373. Silver. Plain edge. MS-64 (PCGS).
27.6 mm. 147.8 grains. Gently mottled deep gray silver with soft accents of blue and green in the fields. A very rare medal, particularly in silver. In the October 1878 edition of the American Journal of Numismatics it was reported that just three examples were struck from these dies in silver. Mintages in bronze and white metal were given therein as just 12 each. Baker had both bronze and white metal pieces, but was missing a silver example.
PCGS# 826586.
From the E Pluribus Unum Collection. Earlier from our (Bowers and Ruddy's) sale of the Stanley DeForest Scott Collection, June 1975, lot 559.
Estimate: $500