1841 (post-1861) John Tyler Indian Peace Medal. Large Size. By Ferdinand Pettrich and John Reich. Julian IP-21. Bronze. Second Reverse. MS-64 BN (NGC). 76 mm. Direct lighting calls forth lovely iridescent undertones of champagne-apricot and powder blue from the otherwise autumn-orange obverse. The reverse exhibits splashes of autumn-orange here and there around the periphery, but is generally medium olive-brown in appearance. Modestly semi-reflective in the fields with only a few trivial handling marks and faint carbon spots on the obverse precluding an even higher numeric grade. One of the nicest we have seen. Struck from the post-1849 reverse die with flat-topped As in the words PEACE and AND.
