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Lot:53 (C. 1820s?) John Adams Indian Peace medal obverse cliche. Tin, uniface, 48.5 x 49.1 mm. 289.7 grains

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2017-11-09 05:00:00

2017-11-09 10:00:00

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(C. 1820s?) John Adams Indian Peace medal obverse cliche. Tin, uniface, 48.5 x 49.1 mm. 289.7 grains. As Julian IP-1.,Lustrous silvery gray with some areas of light toning, particularly behind and below Adams portrait bust. Some minor surface marks are seen, along with areas of inherent granular texture at HN of JOHN. Fissures and irregularities create a somewhat crude look, not unusual considering how many cliches the Philadelphia Mint was making at this era (few) or how long this was intended to exist (not very long at all). <br /><br />The John Adams Indian Peace medal portrait die was attributed to Moritz Furst when first described by Franklin Peale in 1841, two years after Furst departed the United States and ended his career as an American medal engraver. Julian theorized that the die was probably produced as an addition to the Indian Peace medal series during the presidency of his son John Quincy Adams, and we cannot quibble with the fact that his 1825 to 1829 tenure coincided with some of Fursts best work. At some point after this obverse was catalogued by Peale, the die left the US Mint and ended up in the collection of Joseph J. Mickley. Though catalogued for sale in an 1878 auction, the die was sold privately back to the Mint and returned to use thereafter, producing the now familiar bronze 51 mm medals with a Peace and Friendship reverse.<br /><br />In his 1861 work on national medals, James Ross Snowden described the very rare cliches taken from the Adams die: "the die was never hardened, nor was there any reverse. A few copies [i.e. strikes] were taken in soft metal. Engraved by Furst." While Julian speculates these soft metal productions were likely made outside the Mint by Mickley, that begs the questions of how then Snowden would have known about them and why they are so different in fabric from other likely Mickley productions (like the 1804 and 1823 cent restrikes). It seems far more likely that they were produced at the Mint, or at least in the era when the die was first produced, as their production fabric matches other cliches struck in the pre-1850s era. Needless to say, the fact that the texture of this one is identical to the cliche from the unfinished die (offered in the next lot) suggests that both were made at about the same time, namely when the die was brand new.<br /><br />Missing from most major medal collections, current or past, Carl Carlson found only one auction offering of a tin IP-1, almost certainly the 1979 sale of the lot that follows.<br />

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