Undated (ca. 1872) Andrew Jackson / The Stern Old Soldier Medal. Kline Restrike. Dies by John Adams Bolen. Musante JAB-27. Silver. Thin Planchet. MS-63 (PCGS).25.4 mm. 10 grams. Lovely pale green, blue and russet mottled over deep steel gray surfaces. Prooflike, but hairlined. Struck on a thin planchet, which is markedly different from the very thick planchets occasionally seen and believed to represent those medals struck by Bolen directly. The thinner flans are thought to be restrikes by J.W. Kline to whom Bolen sold the dies in 1872. This is also from a later die state with crumbling in the reverse rim over W. Musante does not attribute any in silver to Kline, but a few were undoubtedly struck. These are very rare in silver, regardless of whose press they may have come from. The two main institutional collections of Bolen medals are at the ANS and MHS, and neither has an example in silver. This one has a fine provenance and is one of only five we have seen in silver.From the Claremont Collection. Earlier ex F.C.C. Boyd Collection; our (Bowers and Ruddys) sale of the New York Public Library Collection, October 1982, lot 2741; our (Bowers and Merenas) Philip M. Mann, Jr. and Glenn B. Collections sale, October 1988, lot 1988, our (Bowers and Merenas) Craig M. Smith and George William Youngman Collections sale, March 2003, lot 3441; our (Stacks) sale of the Q. David Bowers Collection, January 2011 New York Americana Sale, lot 6623; our March 2020 Auction, lot 97.
