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Lot:2085 1857 James Buchanan Indian Peace Medal. Silver. First Size. Julian IP-34, Prucha-50. Choice Very Fin

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1857 James Buchanan Indian Peace Medal. Silver. First Size. Julian IP-34, Prucha-50. Choice Very Fine. 75.4 mm. 2546.4 grains. Pierced for suspension as typical, with a bent loop of the original style. Rose-colored woven silk suspension ribbon attached. The medal is mostly varying shades of gray, with lighter tones on the higher areas and deeper ones in the recesses. Traces of subtle violet may be detected in the fields under close inspection. A few blunt marks are visible in the field of the central medallion on the reverse and there are a few tiny rim nicks, but otherwise the marks mostly require magnification to see. Closer study will reveal light scratches in the right obverse field and in the reverse periphery, but the generally nice eye appeal is little affected. Traces of prooflike character remain in the best protected areas of the fields.With the Buchanan medals came another change of the reverse design, though the general theme is not much different from that seen on the reverse used for the Fillmore and Pierce administrations. Here, a large central medallion features a Native American family having adopted Euro-American ways in homesteading, a man plowing his field while his children play baseball in the distance. This is the first known reference to the game in numismatics, but it was quite new at the time and it seems rather remarkable that it would find its way into the medallic arts in this particular context. Around the medallion is a depiction of the Native American lifeways as being utterly "savage," with men in a scalping scene at the top, implements of war at lower left and right (that on the right being superimposed over a peace pipe), and a lamenting womans portrait at the bottom, implying that only sorrow is achieved through traditional ways.Though efforts to create the Buchanan medals began in the spring of 1857, the medals were not delivered until April 1858. This was partly due to the unexpected passing of Joseph Willson, who had designed the new reverse. According to Prucha, 69 large size medals were struck, and "there is no indication that any of them were melted down to make other medals," which would be a fairly sizable net issue. Still, Carl Carlson found just three auction records for a large Buchanan in silver, and the Ford Collection contained only two. The writers own survey has accounted for 15 distinct specimens, five of which are in institutional collections. Ex F. Dennis Lessard Collection; Sotheby’s, May 2005, lot 172.

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