 Palmetto Regiment Medal. Gold. 48.3 mm. 928.2 gns. Choice About Uncirculated. Some prooflike surface remains. Named to Second Lieutenant Abner R. Durham. Durham was Second Lieutenant of G Company under Captain Joseph Kennedy, who was also from Fairfield County. Lt. Durham died in a military hospital at Jalapa, Mexico on June 10, 1847, almost certainly from disease. His Palmetto Regiment medal was presented posthumously to his family. Extremely rare: the cataloguer knows of only six named gold medals: to Captain N.J. Walker (next lot) and Lieutenants Stephen Boykin, G.W. Curtis, David Donald, this piece to Abner R. Durham, and C.G. Jones. Of these, only two had ever been sold publicly before now, this and Curtis's medal.
Ex Flanagan Collection (Bowers and Merena, November 29, 2001, lot 5393).
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