"1789" (ca. 1863) Alfred Robinson's Fantasy Washington Cent. Musante GW-16, Baker-14B. Silver. MS-67 (NGC).

Beautiful medium gray silver with soft pastel accents mottled through the fields; these are a bit more intense on the obverse. Boldly prooflike with no visible handling marks to speak of, as one would anticipate for the NGC grade. A very pretty piece, one of just 22 struck in silver, according to Musante, this likely taken from a contemporary catalog source. Perhaps the finest survivor of a medal that is obviously quite rare in silver.

From the E Pluribus Unum Collection. Earlier from our (Bowers and Merena's) sale of the Frank Saccone Collection, November 1989, lot 3056; our (Stack's) sale of the Fairfax Collection, May 1993, lot 50; our sale of the Charles Wharton Collection, March 2014, lot 2063.

Estimate: $ 1500