1817 James Monroe Indian Peace Medal. Bronze. Second Size. Second Reverse. Julian IP-9, Prucha-41. MS-64 BN (NGC). 62.5 mm. 1966.8 grains. Lovely mahogany brown surfaces are mostly satiny throughout. Just a few very minor handling marks are noted but the eye appeal is superb. Boldly struck from the original obverse and the second, post-1846 reverse, the latter with a prominent wire rim around about half of the circumference. The stress fractures mentioned on the Ness Collection example from these dies are not seen here, suggesting an earlier state of this obverse. Similarly, the tiny areas of rust or spalling beneath the P of FRIENDSHIP and in the field below the CE of PEACE do not seem to be present. From the Ronald A. Slovick Family Collection. Earlier from Johnson and Jensens sale of May 1982, lot 876.
