"1757" Treaty of Easton or Quaker Indian Peace Medal. Restrike. White Metal. Julian IP-49, Betts-401, Jamieson Fig. 8. MS-63 (NGC).

43.4 mm. 397.9 grains. Lustrous light pewter gray surfaces with just a trace of mellowing in the open field areas and the remnant of a small spot at the right central reverse. Pleasing soft luster and minimal handling aside from a couple of thin and faint scratches on both sides. Excellent sharpness and overall eye appeal. A scarce and important issue, likely struck about 1810 at the U.S. Mint. In 1813, Joseph Richardson sent "impressions...from dies that have long been in possession of my predecessor and myself" to fellow Philadelphian Thomas Wister. The few known white metal specimens of this metal struck from this early (essentially perfect) state of the dies are similar in character and composition to early die state white metal Kittanning medals and the white metal Gates at Saratoga medals, which are known to have been struck at the U.S. Mint circa 1801 by Adam Eckfeldt. Joseph Richardson the Younger, the writer of the letter cited above and the son of the man who struck both this medal and the Kittanning medal in 1756-57, then served as Assayer of the U.S. Mint. Two of these white metal strikes were present in the Ford Collection, including this, and another was offered in our 2001 sale of the Lucien LaRiviere Collection.

From the E Pluribus Unum Collection. Earlier from Virgil M. Brand; Horace Louis Philip Brand; New Netherlands Coin Company; John J. Ford, Jr.; our (Stack's) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part XVI, October 2006, lot 43.