Stack's Bowers Galleries

March 2021 Auction  –  24 - 27 March 2021

Stack's Bowers Galleries, March 2021 Auction

Live Sessions: US Coins and Banknotes

Part 1: We, 24.03.2021, from 7:00 PM CET
Part 2: Th, 25.03.2021, from 5:00 PM CET
Part 3: Th, 25.03.2021, from 10:00 PM CET
Part 4: Fr, 26.03.2021, from 2:00 AM CET
Part 5: Fr, 26.03.2021, from 5:00 PM CET
The auction is closed.

Description

Lincolniana

1860 Abraham Lincoln Political Medalet. Cunningham 1-740CN, King-70, DeWitt-AL 1860-73. Copper-Nickel. MS-64 (NGC).

19 mm. This lovely Choice Mint State example is satiny to semi-prooflike with even, warm tan-rose patina. The dies for this type were cut by George Hampden Lovett for William Leggett Bramhall after May 1860. According to Rulau (2004), Lovett modeled the bust of Lincoln after a photograph that Bramhall received from a friend, George B. Lincoln of Brooklyn. Of this type Cunningham, in his 2015 Lincolniana reference, states: "The reverse of this token [with THE HANNIBAL OF AMERICA inscription] clearly emphasizes Lincoln's running mate Hamlin, causing a number of observers to suggest that the token-maker Bramhall was belittling Lincoln. It may be that Bramhall was simply exercising his wit." Examples were struck in brass, copper, copper-nickel, silver and white metal. Copper-nickel examples were produced to the greatest extent -- 250 pieces -- probably because Bramhall believed that they were the first political medalets produced in the same metallic composition and size as the United States Mint's contemporary copper-nickel cent. In fact, the planchets were likely acquired from the Philadelphia Mint, as they were for Bramhall's copper-nickel Robbins, Royce & Hard store cards, Miller-NY 669 and 675.

Estimate: $ 500

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Price realized 950 USD
Starting price 1 USD
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