1861 HK-11d, Bombardment of Fort Sumter-Type 2 Dollar
Strike Type
Coin Details
Auction Record
- Price realized
- $2,280
- Sold
- Grade
- MS61
- Auction house
- Stack's Bowers
Description
Hibler and Kappen admit that a great deal of research failed to establish who issued the Fort Sumter medals, which plainly mark the first engagement of the Civil War. HK-11d is the white metal version of the Type II design: the same obverse view of the fort under bombardment, dated April 12 & 13--1861, joined to a Union reverse with an eagle circled by 34 stars and the words "One Flag and One Union / Now and Forever" inside a wreath of leaves. That reverse die also served for political and campaign medals with other obverses. The size is 34 mm, as with the brass HK-11a. Though unsigned, the work is attributed to George Hampden Lovett. Major Robert Anderson's 75 men gave up the fort to Beauregard's Confederates without a casualty on either side.
Cross References
HK-11d; PCGS #642031; NGC #851589
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