1782 Holland Receives John Adams as Envoy Medal. Betts-603. Silver, 45 mm. AU-58 (PCGS). 433.1 grains. A popular and eye-catching medal, offering some of Johann Georg Holtzheys best work of the era. Reflective silver gray with darker gray halos around the design elements. Some polishing rouge is present among the peripheral obverse legends, and the fields exhibit some subtle hairlines. The expanse of the reverse field shows some contact marks, nothing serious. The allegorical designs, showing England as a lion beneath Americas heel on the obverse and as a unicorn with a broken horn after running into a mountain on the reverse, are as boldly communicative as any of the era. From the Richard Margolis Collection. Earlier from Neddy Allen, April 1979.
