George III and Queen Charlotte, n.d. [1761]. Unsigned. Adams 11.1 (obverse 1, reverse A), Jamieson figure 10. Silver. 39.0mm. 289.9 gns. Facing busts of the king and queen, drapery above; royal arms and supporters. Not looped. Not holed. Choice Uncirculated. Prooflike. Nicely toned in deep gray with iridescent blue and rose toning. Sharp strike. Some rim filing. Very rare: of the 19 specimens in Adams' modern census fully 9 are in public institutional collections. Adams listed this as an Indian medal on the strength of a shared reverse (his Adams 9.1) with the small size standard George III medal and a somewhat obscure invoice for medals from August, 1777. Adams conjectured that the early breakage of the obverse of the smallest George III medal led to the obverse of the George and Charlotte medal being pressed into substitute use as an Indian medal. Alan Stahl classed it as a marriage medal whose evidence for Indian usage was inconclusive. Several generations of Canadian scholar-collectors preferred to list it as an Indian medal as did the late Mr. Ford.
Ex Fred Baldwin on August 2, 1969.
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