1775 William Penn Memorial Medal. Betts-531. Silver. AU-58 (PCGS).

40.3 mm. 409.6 grains. A popular and important American reference medal, commissioned by the Penn family to honor their ancestor who founded the colony of Pennsylvania. Abundant golden toning graces deeply reflective light silver gray surfaces. The fields show some marks and hairlines, but none are terribly serious. The Indian figure on the reverse appears again, decades later, at the central reverse of the 1805 Eccleston medal. Silver strikes of this medal are multiple times more elusive than specimens in bronze.

From the E Pluribus Unum Collection. Earlier from G. Hearn via Spink & Son, Ltd. on July 23, 1969; our (Stack's) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part XIV, May 2006, lot 368.