No Date Medal Andrew Johnson

Coin Details

Auction Record

$840 MS63BN 03-31-2021 Stack's Bowers

Description

This undated medal of Andrew Johnson is a standard U.S. Mint bronze presidential medal honoring the seventeenth President (1865-1869). Johnson assumed the presidency hours after Abraham Lincoln's death on April 15, 1865, becoming the first vice president to succeed an assassinated president. His tenure was dominated by the bitter struggle over Reconstruction policy, culminating in his impeachment by the House of Representatives in February 1868 — the first presidential impeachment in American history. Johnson (1808-1875) was a self-educated tailor from North Carolina who settled in Tennessee and rose through local and state politics to become a congressman, governor, and senator. He was the only Southern senator to remain loyal to the Union during secession, which made him a valuable symbol of Unionist sentiment and led to his selection as Lincoln's running mate in 1864. However, Johnson's sympathies lay with the white yeoman farmers of the South rather than with the formerly enslaved people whose freedom the war had secured, and his vetoes of civil rights legislation put him in direct conflict with the Radical Republican Congress. The Senate acquitted Johnson by a single vote, 35-19, on May 16, 1868, falling one vote short of the two-thirds required for removal. He returned to the Senate in 1875, the only former president to do so, but died shortly thereafter. The undated bronze medal preserves Johnson's likeness in the standard format available through the Mint's ongoing sales program.

Rarity Notes

Standard U.S. Mint bronze presidential medal. Produced for ongoing public sale. Available in the numismatic market without difficulty.

Cross References

PCGS #413561