Stack's Bowers Galleries

June 2021 Auction  –  11 - 12 June 2021

Stack's Bowers Galleries, June 2021 Auction

Live Sessions: US Coins

Part 1: Fr, 11.06.2021, from 12:00 AM CEST
Part 2: Fr, 11.06.2021, from 11:00 PM CEST
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Description

Life Saving Medals

"1849" Life Saving Benevolent Association of New York Medal. By George Hampden Lovett. Bronze. MS-62 BN (NGC).

51 mm. Obv: Sailing ship foundering in storm, House of Refuge on shore dispatches rescuers in life boat while others fire a lifeline from a Lyle Gun on the beach. Rev: Oak wreath at border, inscription VITA FELICIBUS AUSIS SERVATA above. Unawarded, so the central reverse is blank.

From Heritage's sale of the Twin Cities Collection of Medals, June 2016 Long Beach Signature Auction, lot 99419.

Estimate: 350

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Starting price 1 USD
Estimate 350 USD
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