1839 gold medal of Revolutionary War general called the "most shocking and important discovery"

vulcanize

The original and only gold Daniel Morgan at Cowpens Medal struck by the Philadelphia Mint in 1839, untraced since 1885, an anonymous owner consigned the medal to be auctioned off at Stack's Bowers Galleries April 4-8 in Costa Mesa, California.
The pre-auction sales estimate is $250,000 to $500,000.

Read all about it at following link:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daniel-morgan-at-cowpens-medal-1839-discovery-auction/

Weiss

Amazing.

vulcanize

@Weiss said:
Amazing.

News had broken out on coinworld earlier this month. Don't know how the article was missed.

https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/battle-of-cowpens-replacement-gold-medal-found

Weiss

I had a good friend in middle and high school who was named Daniel Morgan by his father, who is a military historian.
He has a younger brother named Nathanael Greene.

pcgscacgold

@zoins had a thread on this back on March 26th.

vulcanize

@pcgscacgold said:
@zoins had a thread on this back on March 26th.

Oops!!!
I missed that one too then because of being tad busy and being not so regular for past few days. Hopefully some mod can merge this thread into that.

291fifth

It looks like it is in near pristine condition. It probably went untouched for many, many decades to have survived in that condition.

ricko

What a beautiful medal... and I would like to know 'the rest of the story'- like where has it been all these years. I also wonder what happened to the original that was stolen..... Melted? Buried? Hidden in some wall somewhere?? Wouldn't that be amazing if it surfaced now? Cheers, RickO

johnny9434

That might be watching on that nice piece