 Thomas Jefferson Indian Peace Medal, 1801. Silver. Third Size. J.IP.4, Pr.39, B. 17. Choice Extremely Fine. 53.7mm. Rims 3.6 - 3.8mm thick. 571.5 gns. Nice, even pale silver gray color on both sides with considerable prooflike lustre on the reverse. A simply outstanding specimen. With original hanger and loop. Somewhat softly struck on the bases of the letters at left in the obverse inscription; bases of FRIEN weak on the reverse. Small planchet depression in the right obverse field. Extremely rare: the second rarest of the three sizes in silver shells. The Winterthur collection has a polished Very Fine example and the piece in Bowers & Merena's sale of March, 2001 was also graded Very Fine. There was a very nice specimen, missing its loop, in Sotheby's (New York) sale of December, 1993 that Tony Terranova bought for $15,000. The medal is also known in solid pewter (reported by Belden) but of uncertain date.
Ex J. Douglas Ferguson at the CNA Convention, Montreal, on August 12. 1965.
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