Wash-Success AE Medal Large, Reeded Edge, Silvered MS(PCGS#788)

November 2021 Baltimore U.S. Coins auction

Auctioneer

Stack's Bowers

Lot Number

10110

Grade

AU58

Price

1,080

Lot Description

Circa 1793 Washington Success Token. Large Size. First Obverse. Musante GW-41, Baker-265, Breen-1286, DeWitt 1792-1. Brass, Silvered. Reeded edge. AU-58 (PCGS). 25.1 mm. 67.7 grains. Pleasing olive brown with glossy surfaces and generous traces of original silvering close to the obverse motifs and through much of the better protected reverse fields. Accents of lighter golden patina between the obverse letters and the rim. A small flan crack passes between the S and H of WASHINGTON but does not extend to the portrait. No obverse rust or spalling between the hair tie and the E of GEORGE, and no signs of the heavy spalling that later forms on this reverse. In fact, in a recent survey of auction appearances, we found no reeded edge examples of this die pairing with the reverse in its spalled state, so this must be among the earlier die pairings. Nicely struck and very attractive. Provenance: From the E Pluribus Unum Collection. Earlier from our (Stack's) Western Reserve Historical Society sale, January 2003, lot 1403.