(circa-1861) Lt.-Col. John Egar Howard Military Medal, MS62 Brown PCGS. Betts-595. $350
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Although designated by PCGS as Julian-MI-9, implying it was struck at the U.S. Mint, the present medal was instead struck at the Paris Mint in France. John Eager Howard at Cowpens medal. Paris Mint Restrike. Copper, Bronzed. 46 mm. Adams and Bentley-12, Betts-595
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Is this the same medal, in gold, that's going up for auction? Peace Roy
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No, not the same medal, but same battle. A very famous battle of the revolutionary war. This is a bronze restrike done in Paris in the 1860's. There are Original medals in gold and silver which are 5 figures..
Along with the William Washington medal for Cowpens, and General George Washington's medal for the action at Dorchester Heights, this was among the very last batch of Comitia Americana medals completed. David Humphreys handed the Comitia Americana project off to Thomas Jefferson in an April 4, 1786 letter: "I have made no contracts for the other four, viz. for Genl. Washington's on the evacuation of Boston, for Morgan, Washington and Howard on the affair of the Cowpens, because the designs for them have not been in readiness for execution until the present time." Jefferson hired Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier to do all three of those mentioned; the fourth commission, for the Daniel Morgan medal, went to Augustin Dupre, who Jefferson preferred as the superior artist. Jefferson's initial contact with Duvivier appears to have come no earlier than the end of 1788, more than two and a half years after Humphreys' departure. Duvivier wrote to Jefferson four times in 1789: on January 5, February 23, April 11, and June 7. None of the letters have survived. But when Jefferson boarded a ship bound for Norfolk, Virginia in the fall of 1789, he carried with him all of Duvivier's works, including the silver medal for Howard.