1881 HK-125, Battle of Groton Heights Dollar

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George Hampden Lovett issued this medal in 1881, a hundred years after the fight at Groton Heights, and his obverse puts the viewer inside Fort Griswold: an American soldier reloads his musket behind the low wall while a kneeling Indian aims a gun over it, ringed by the words "We will not give up the fort, let the consequences be what they may." The reverse is a plan of the fort lettered "Massacre in Fort Griswold," with an arrow pointing north and, below, "and Burning of New London September 6. 1781," while the border gives the centennial date, September 6, 1881. HK-125 is the white metal striking, 40 mm; bronze is HK-125b and silver HK-125c. The fort's capture and the burning of New London took place on the same day in 1781, and both are named on the medal.

Cross References

HK-125; PCGS #642323; NGC #850224