Washington Before Boston medal. Third Paris Mint issue. First Issued “Original” Obverse / Second Issued Reverse with Corrected Date. Musante GW-09-P2A, Baker-48. Bronze. Plain Edge. Extremely Fine.<p>68.5 mm, 1987.2 grains. Dark chocolate and mahogany brown surfaces would be perfectly even and glossy except for a thin layer of light, inactive verdigris over much of the surface from some careless storage, likely long ago. Beyond this, however, this is a lovely example with the sharpness fully About Uncirculated, or better. The details are crisp, and even with the fine roughness the later die state represented here can be discerned by studying the advancement of the obverse spalling alone. This determination is much easier from the reverse, however, where a secondary arcing crack has formed above the officers’ heads, but just below the main break through the upper field. This is one of just nine examples known to us from this die pairing with the corrected reverse die. <p>From the Collection of Marc McDonald. Earlier ex Johnson and Jensen, March 1982, lot 248; Charles A. Wharton Collection, Stack’s Bowers Galleries, March 2014, lot 2070.<p>
