August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
"1797" (ca. 1806-1807) Sansom Medal. Original. Musante GW-58, Baker-71B, Julian PR-1. White Metal. AU Details--Scratch (PCGS).
40.6 mm. 353.6 grains. Bright reflective luster remains at the peripheries, though the fields have mellowed to an even and pleasing pewter gray. Good sharpness, a bit granular in the fields as typical of this composition, some vertical scratches in right obverse field explain the PCGS qualifier. Some other minor handling marks are seen. One of just four completed medals in Philadelphia merchant Joseph Sansom's "Medallic History of the American Revolution," engraved by John Reich between 1805 and 1807. This medal was presented to Thomas Jefferson and others in silver; this composition would have been the least expensive at the time, thus it remains rather easily collected today.
From our (Stack's) sale of the Norweb Collection, November 2006, lot 2069; our (Stack's) Philadelphia Americana Sale of September 2009, lot 6195; our Philadelphia ANA Auction of August 2012, lot 4155.
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| Price realized | 220 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 500 USD |
