1849 Zachary Taylor Indian Peace Medal. Bronze. Second Size. Julian IP-28, Prucha-47. First Reverse. MS-65 BN (NGC). 62 mm. Outstanding dark chocolate-brown surfaces with lovely satin finish and soft luster through the fields. Excellent eye appeal with just a couple of tiny spots that account for the grade. The first visual impression is better than "MS-65" might suggest. The "second reverse" dies for all three sizes were completed by 1846 because the original dies were supposedly beyond their useful life. The new reverse was used for all issued Zachary Taylor medals in silver. However, for some reason certain of the bronzes of the Taylor designs (not all of them) were curiously struck using the original reverse, and this is one of them. It is found with both first and second reverse-die pairings. First reverse pairings like this are the rarer of the two, being outnumbered by second reverse pairings by two-to-one in our online archives. This is a particularly attractive example.