1757 Treaty of Easton or Quaker Indian Peace Medal. Restrike. Julian IP-49, Betts-401, Jamieson Fig. 8. White Metal. About Uncirculated. 43.0 mm. 396.5 grains. Fairly uniform deep pewter gray with some traces of lighter patina in the recesses of the legends. Gently glossy surfaces with just a few tiny marks. Small, somewhat regular edge scoring is an added ornament, and unusual. 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. Probably from the Leonard Finn Collection, December 1983; John W. Adams, our (Stacks) Americana Sale of January 2009, lot 5055.
