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Categories • Stack's May 2006 → The John J. Ford, Jr. Collection: Part 14 → The Ford Collection of Betts Medals, Part II: Medals Illustrative of Early American History → The American Revolution 1776 - 1783 → Victory Assured and the End of the War |
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Lot # |
Description |
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Hammer Price |
| 291 |
Libertas Americana, 1781. B.615
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CH AU |
$16,000.00
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Reverse signed DUPRE.F. Bronze. 47.8 mm. 767.1 gns. Types as last. Choice About Uncirculated. A nice example of this medal in bronze. The Libertas Americana medal was not restruck (as far as is known) even though the dies remained at the Paris Mint for several decades before being lost in the chaos of one of Paris' many civil disturbances. |
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| 292 |
Libertas Americana, 1781. B.615
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CH AU |
$13,000.00
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Reverse signed DUPRE.F. Bronze. 47.8 mm. 718.8 gns. Types as the last. Choice About Uncirculated. Some rub on Liberty's hair, reverse spot. Interestingly, Benjamin Franklin, who commissioned the dies and influenced their designs, wrote to Robert Livingston in 1783 saying he liked the copper [sic, he meant bronze] ones best. |
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| 293 |
Libertas Americana, 1781. B.615
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CH AU |
$13,000.00
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Reverse signed DUPRE.F. Bronze. 47.8 mm. 707.6 gns. Types as last. Choice About Uncirculated. Spotty. While the exact number of bronze medals struck is unknown, Franklin suggested in a 1783 letter to the president of Congress that each member of Congress would receive a medal. |
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| 294 |
Libertas Americana, 1781. B.615
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CH AU |
$18,000.00
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Reverse signed DUPRE.F. Bronze. 47.8 mm. 796.4 gns. Types as last. Choice About Uncirculated. Corrosion on edge, rims nicked in places. |
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| 295 |
Libertas Americana, 1781. B.615
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AU |
$11,000.00
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Reverse signed DUPRE.F. Bronze. 47.8 mm. 778.0 gns. Types as last. About Uncirculated. Good color. |
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| 296 |
Libertas Americana, 1781. B.615
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AU |
$11,000.00
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Reverse signed DUPRE.F. Bronze. 47.7 mm. 747.4 gns. Types as last. About Uncirculated. Light brown color. |
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| 297 |
Libertas Americana, 1781. B.615
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EF |
$5,500.00
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Reverse signed DUPRE.F. Bronze. 47.7 mm. 720.9 gns. Types as last. Extremely Fine. Cleaned long ago. |
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| 298 |
Libertas Americana, 1781. B.615
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EF |
$4,000.00
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Reverse signed DUPRE.F. Bronze. 47.7 mm. 731.2 gns. Types as last. Extremely Fine. Edge crudely filed. |
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| 299 |
Libertas Americana, 1781. B.615
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(see below) |
$650.00
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A copy of the types in silver from reproduction dies struck at the Paris Mint in 1975 for First Coinvestors, Inc. 77.0 mm. Weight irrelevant. Edge inscribed with attribution and serial number 0451. As struck, with its box of issue and a letter of transmittal from Stanley Apfelbaum. |
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| 300 |
Treaty of Paris and Freedom of the Seas, 1783. B-unlisted
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AU |
$400.00
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Obverse signed GATTEAUX. Silver. 30.2 mm. 172.6 gns. 1.5 - 1.6 mm. thick. Reeded edge. Bust right of Louis XVI; LIBERTE DES MERS above PAIX DE 1783. About Uncirculated. Lightly toned. Nicholas-Marie Gatteaux also designed the Horatio Gates, John Stewart, and Anthony Wayne Comitia Americana medals. |
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| 301 |
Treaty of Paris and Freedom of the Seas, 1783. B-unlisted
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CH EF |
$250.00
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Obverse signed GATTEAUX. Silver. 30.2 mm. 179.4 gns. 1.6 - 1.7 mm. thick. Reeded edge. Types as last. Choice Extremely Fine. Nicely toned. |
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| 302 |
Compagnie des Indes, 1785. B-unlisted
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CH EF |
$750.00
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Obverse signed DU VIV, reverse signed D.V. Silver. Octagonal 35.5 x 35.7 mm. 298.8 gns. Plain edge. Bust of Louis XV; company arms. Choice Extremely Fine. Reverse die broken through date numerals. An echo of past glories. |
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| 303 |
Compagnie des Indes, 1785. B-unlisted
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VF |
$250.00
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Obverse signed DU VIV. Silver. Octagonal 35.3 x 35.1 mm. 315.0 gns. Plain edge. Types as last without reverse signature. Very Fine. Surfaces pitted. An echo of past glories. |
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