Undated (ca. 1872) Jefferson / Jackson Muling. Dies by J.A. Bolen. Musante JAB K-1. Silver. MS-62 (PCGS).

25.4 mm. 159.8 grains. Medium silver gray on the Jefferson side with soft golden brown accents through the fields giving way to deeper blue and slate toward the rim. The reverse is more deeply toned with some subtle mottled color. A small rim bump is noted at 11:00 for accuracy. We have only a single example from these dies in our online archives, a brass one from the Tim Gabriele Collection sold in November 2017. Though that had an earlier provenance to Q. David Bowers, it was not in our January 2011 offering of his Bolen medals. Extremely rare in any form, and a medal for which Musante reported no auction appearances in his reference on the series. Struck from a later state of the dies than the brass piece offered below, and later than the example of JAB K-13 offered later in the sale. A small but distinctive break has formed in the Jefferson die rim, at 5:00, but it has not yet formed the complete cud noted on the copper example in the next lot. Board Position: B 3/1

From the E Pluribus Unum Collection.