1757 Treaty of Easton or Quaker Indian Peace Medal. Restrike. Julian IP-49, Betts-401, Jamieson Fig. 8. White Metal. Very Choice About Uncirculated.43.1 mm. 385.0 grains. Light pewter gray with faint die finishing lines that give the piece an almost prooflike appearance when rotated in the light. Largely, a fine satin texture is seen up close, along with few gentle hairlines that seem almost unavoidable in this soft composition. A scarce and important issue, likely struck about 1810 at the U.S. Mint. In 1813, Joseph Richardson sent "impressions...from dies that have long been in possession of my predecessor and myself" to fellow Philadelphian Thomas Wister. The few known white metal specimens of this metal struck from this early (essentially perfect) state of the dies are similar in character and composition to early die state white metal Kittanning medals and the white metal Gates at Saratoga medals, which are known to have been struck at the U.S. Mint circa 1801 by Adam Eckfeldt. Joseph Richardson the Younger, the writer of the letter cited above and the son of the man who struck both this medal and the Kittanning medal in 1756-57, then served as Assayer of the U.S. Mint. Two of these white metal strikes were present in the Ford Collection, and another was offered in our 2001 sale of the Lucien LaRiviere Collection. This would be an important addition to a collection of Peace medals or U.S. Mint issues.Ex Paul Patterson Collection, June 1986; John W. Adams; our (Stacks) Americana Sale, January 2009, lot 5054.
