1825 John Quincy Adams Indian Peace Medal. Bronze. First Size. Julian IP-11, Prucha-42. First Reverse. MS-65 BN (NGC). 76 mm. Lovely light mahogany-bronze surfaces are uniform and beautifully preserved throughout. Satiny and lustrous with just a few trivial marks visible under close study. One faint natural planchet flaw is noted behind the head. Struck from the original dies for the silver medals, but in later states here with small patches of spalling. The obverse die is cracked in two places. One break crosses the rim, passes through the C of QUINCY and extends to the back of the portrait. The other extends from the top of the rim right of the I of PRESIDENT and extends to the head. These breaks appear on both Ness Collection specimens, one from each reverse die.
