August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
Part B: Mo, 12.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
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Description
1879 United States Assay Commission Medal. JK AC-19. Rarity-5. Copper, Bronzed. Specimen-65 BN (PCGS).
38 mm. Handsome deeply reflective brown surfaces on both sides of this smartly impressed, sharply defined example. The first of the larger format (38 vs 33 mm) Assay Commission medals, the 1879 was produced to the extent of at least four silver and 30 copper (or bronze) impressions. The reverse design symbolizes Joseph Henry's leadership of the Smithsonian Institution from 1846 through his death in 1878. The obverse design also commemorates a recent death, in this case that of Mint Director Henry R. Linderman who passed on January 27, 1879, only a short time before the meeting of the Commission that year.
From our (Bowers and Merena's) sale of the F.C.C. Boyd Collection, March 1985 Russell B. Patterson Collection sale, lot 1596; our (Stack's) sale of the Ernest E. Keusch Collection of United States Assay Medals, 1860-1977, November 2008, lot 5253.
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| Price realized | 1'400 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 750 USD |
