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首席收藏网 > 数据中心 > Stack's Bowers and Ponterio > SBP2020年11月#1-Larry Ness集藏

Lot:2043 1825 John Quincy Adams Indian Peace Medal. Silver. Second Size. Julian IP-12, Prucha-42. Extremely F

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1825 John Quincy Adams Indian Peace Medal. Silver. Second Size. Julian IP-12, Prucha-42. Extremely Fine. 62.3 mm. 1623.4 grains. Pierced for suspension as typical and once again the piercing is consistently positioned with respect to the obverse design across all issued medals observed, guaranteeing that these were pierced at the Mint. Also similar to observations on other issues, the positioning of the piercing with respect to the reverse design varies a bit. There are three such positions among the second size Adams medals, directly over the C of PEACE, left of that letter, and just slightly right. This points to three different striking sessions. There is no visible collar seam on the edge, but the collar seems to have been broken as there is an interesting raised defect along a short segment of the edge, from about 2:00 to 3:00 relative to the obverse.Lovely dark gray patina over most of the surface is accented by soft blue iridescence and traces of gold, while some of the more vulnerable areas of the design are somewhat lighter gray. This medal is quite bold overall, with nice definition of all details and a degree of sharpness remaining at the rims. What wear is visible, however, is consistent with an awarded medal. Numerous small nicks are seen in the rims and on both sides. More serious are groups of scratches in the obverse field, which are somewhat heavy. Light graffiti is noted in the lower reverse field as well. Such marks, while frowned upon in other areas of numismatics, speak to the decidedly non-numismatic purpose and ownership of these medals. Some Peace medals come with initials or, better yet, names of recipients cut into them. No matter how crude, such treatments make for a better piece as they hold the potential of tying an individual medal to an original recipient. Those occasions are both extremely rare and extremely desirable. Though the heavier scratches on this medal could well have been someones initials, it is impossible to know for sure. The noted reverse graffiti seems to be a date, 1895, with the digit 9 reversed from the proper orientation-perhaps an important date to someone this was passed down to. Again, we will never know, but all insights into the past owners of these prized medals are worthy of mention and, arguably, have value</em>.It is believed that a combined total of 136 second and third size medals were struck for the John Quincy Adams administration, but Prucha gives no indication of the breakdown by size. Robert Julian does, however, giving the mintage of this size as 88, and the remainder in small size medals. This fits the modern data quite well. Carl Carlson found more auction appearances of this second size (a total of six, versus three of the small size), they outnumbered the small size medals in the Ford Collection, and we are aware of more survivors of this size. The present writer has located 15 distinct examples with six of these in institutional hands, leaving just nine for collectors to compete for-precious few indeed! Ex Sotheby’s Parke-Bernet, October 1975, lot 184; Lucien LaRiviere Collection, Stack’s, January 1996, lot 72.

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