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1788 Medal Baker-1829 Silver Washington Monument Association

Strike Type
1788 Colonials coin

Coin Details

Year
1788
Denomination
Colonials
Strike Type
Regular Strike
Series
Washington Pieces (1783-1800)
Composition
Silver

Auction Record

Price realized
$240
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Grade
MS63
Auction house
Stack's Bowers

Description

The 1788 Medal Baker-1829 Silver Washington Monument Association is filed under WASHINGTON BEFORE BOSTON Medals in the Washington Pieces (1783-1800) series. On March 25, 1776 Congress voted Washington a gold medal for the recovery of Boston. The dies were cut in Paris in 1786 by Pierre Simon Duvivier, with a bust modelled on Houdon's, and the gold piece passed to the Boston Public Library in 1876 (Baker). Baker lists the original reverse (No. 47), a second reverse whose dies stayed at the Paris Mint, which went on striking from them (No. 48), and United States Mint pieces from dies copied from a medal in 1860 (No. 49); Musante numbers the Paris and Mint issues GW-09-P and GW-09-US. It is catalogued as Baker-1829. PCGS lists it as #528920.

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Baker-1829

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