(c.1841) Medal GW-163 Copper Reeded Edge Tyrant Alcohol, 2nd Dies

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The (c.1841) Medal GW-163 Copper Reeded Edge Tyrant Alcohol, 2nd Dies 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. The 2019 Stack's Bowers catalogue says these medalets came from the Washington Temperance Benevolent Society, founded in Baltimore in April 1840, to members who had sworn off alcohol. It is catalogued as Musante GW-163, Baker-332A. PCGS lists it as #680705.

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Musante GW-163; Baker-332A