1825 John Quincy Adams Indian Peace Medal. Bronze. Second Size. Julian IP-12, Prucha-42. First Reverse. MS-64 BN (NGC). 62.5 mm. Deep satiny mahogany-bronze with slightly lighter accents on the highest points of the obverse design. Sharp, lustrous and very attractive overall with almost no marks worthy of mention and a lone tiny oxidation spot against the reverse rim at 9 oclock. Struck from the original reverse die with the usual late-state spalling in places, most prominently on the rim left of the lower left corner of the cuff. From a survey of our auction archives, it would appear that medals from this first reverse are about twice as rare as those from the second, post-1846 reverse die.
