(1790s) AE Medal Washington-Success Large, Reeded Edge MS(PCGS#780)

December 2020 U.S. Coins Auction

Commissaire-priseur

Stack's Bowers

Numéro du lot

2093

Grade

AU55

Prix

1 080

Description du lot

Undated (ca. 1801) Success Medal. Large Size. First Obverse. Musante GW-41, Baker-265, W-10900. Brass. Reeded Edge. AU-55 (PCGS). Marbled deep rose and charcoal-russet patina blankets surfaces that retain glints of warm medium brass color. Well centered in strike, most design elements are expectably bold for the assigned grade; bluntness of strike at the eye in the center of the reverse is typical for the type. A tiny carbon spot on the reverse at the letter D in UNITED is well concealed by the toning, and there are no marks of note. Neil Musante (2016) makes a case for these being dated to about 1801, when Philadelphia merchant Thomas Passmore offered "3000 medals [with a] striking likeness of general Washington." Neither the 1790s nor 1820s made much sense in terms of the workmanship and general texture of these; 1801 does. PCGS# 780. Click here for certification details from PCGS.