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Lot:17 1779 (Circa 1860s) Captain John Paul Jones. U.S. Mint "Gunmetal" Dies. Bronzed Copper. 56 mm. By Aug

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SBP2017年3月巴尔地摩-美国钱币#1

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1779 (Circa 1860s) Captain John Paul Jones. U.S. Mint "Gunmetal" Dies. Bronzed Copper. 56 mm. By Augustin Dupre. Julian NA-1, Betts-568. AU-58 (NGC).;One of a very few examples of this medal produced from soft gunmetal dies. This piece shows significant breakdown of the rims with a rim cud extending from about 9 oclock to about 10 oclock on the obverse and a more extensive double cud from about 8:30 to 10:30 on the reverse. Other than that, the detail hubbed from the French medal is still sharp and distinct overall. Only insignificant handling marks and edge ticks are seen, and the finish is a pleasing, warm, semi-reflective chocolate brown on both sides with a single small area of toning behind Jones head.<p>When in 1861 Mint Director James Pollock requested from the Paris Mint the return of historical dies made at American expense during the Revolutionary period nearly a century before, he was informed that we had purchased only the product of the dies we had contracted for and that the Paris Mint could not send the dies themselves, which were occasionally used to produce restrikes for collectors. Instead, Pollock had to settle for purchasing 20 restrikes of each of the then-available United States-related French medals, which he then sold to collectors requesting such pieces from the U.S. Mint. Within a year or two supplies of the more popular of these designs began to dwindle, whereby the director had copy dies produced from specially prepared blocks of gunmetal onto which were hubbed impressions taken directly from one of the remaining French restrikes. These gunmetal dies were much softer than the usual steel dies, and were subject to rather rapid deterioration. As a result, cuds and die breaks, especially on the rims, quickly developed and are one of the diagnostics used to determine if a particular medal is an earlier Paris Mint plain edge original or a later U.S. Mint restrike (which were also plain edge pieces). This specimen with rim cuds and a plain edge was produced from gunmetal dies between 1861 and the end of that decade. During that period two press runs of 25 medals each of the John Paul Jones type were struck, giving a probable production of 50 pieces -- a reasonable life expectancy for these relatively soft dies. The next bunch of Jones medals comprised 10 examples struck in 1875, but it is believed that by that time entirely new copy dies of hardened steel, omitting the French sculptors signature, had been produced at the Philadelphia Mint. Because they were made for such a short period of time, impressions from the gunmetal dies are actually scarcer than the plain edge French originals and their early unmarked edge restrikes, and much scarcer than the later edged-marked French issues and the U.S. issues without Dupres signature.<p>This is a thoroughly appealing example of the first American-produced John Paul Jones medal. This large, dramatic medal honoring one of Americas greatest naval heroes is in demand by specialists in Comitia Americana, Betts and naval medals, the type obviously appealing to a wide collector base.;From Presidential Coin and Antique Companys sale of the Charles McSorley Collection, November 1997, lot 362. Lot tag included.

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