1786 Benjamin Franklin Born Boston Medal. Betts-620. Copper, 45.8 mm. Original dies. MS-62 BN (PCGS).

688.8 grains. Plain edge. Rich chocolate brown with excellent eye appeal. Glossy but not lustrous, even and attractive on both sides. Somewhat advanced die state, the broken rims showing significant filing around the obverse, as issued. An area of tooling is well hidden in the leaf beneath E of ERIPUIT. Fairly widely available in copper, but still a historic relic of Dupre's final work for Franklin.

PCGS# 606300.

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From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from eBay, March 2005.