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Broadstruck

Reposting my WTH purchase for those who missed it...

Also as otherwise it's tough to come up with something new to post each week!


1844 Henry Clay Campaign Medal, HC 1844-9



This scarce intriguing medal was issued by the Native American Party also known as the Native American Republican Association. It’s members were usually referred to as "Natives" a precursor to the Know Nothing Party in 1844.

They saw the U.S. flag as "Trampled Upon" and urged people to "Beware of Foreign Influence."

They supported the Whig ticket of Clay and Frelinghuysen and this medal is a product of the their platform was anti-foreign-born and anti-catholic.

They asserted that only native-born, protestant citizens were fit to run the country.




Anyone who has seen the film "Gangs of New York" is familiar with this anti-immigrant movement, which appeared in the early 1840’s and had political influence up to the Civil War when more pressing concerns pushed it from the stage.

White metal 41mm in diameter -

The obverse depicts Henry Clay standing with his right arm upraised and with his left holding a tattered U.S. flag with 13 stars.

On the reverse is a flying eagle with a scroll in its beak is surrounded by a semicircle of 7 stars.

Most surviving examples are known in VF +/- details condition and are either holed for suspension or have been plugged. This Unc example (NGC MS62PL) is one of the finest known and is fully proof-like along with being unholed.

ThePennyLady

Waiting for some images of new Conders from Todd, so here are some oldies, but goodies...

Broadstruck

1835 Alfred D. Willard, Boston, Mass., HT-171 / Low-328

NewEnglandRarities

C.C. Wright Declaration of Independence Medal Electrotype. Signatures Reverse. Baker 53M

InYHWHWeTrust

morgansforever

That Declaration of Independence Medal is very cool.
These tough to locate? What year were they manufactured?
Scott

Broadstruck

<< <i>That Declaration of Independence Medal is very cool.
These tough to locate? What year were they manufactured?
Scott >>




DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE- Facsimile Signatures
WRIGHT, Charles Cushing: USA, ca.1851, Bronze, 91 mm
Obv: John Trumbull's Painting Declaration of Independence July 4th, 1776
Rev: Facsimile signatures of all 56 signatories of the Declaration of Independence

These include (in script, listed here with complete names in order by state): Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton, John Hanc'ock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton.
Signed: C.C. WRIGHT. FECIT

Copper electrotype. This very rare, unlisted medal is not known in any other than electrotype form. Only two specimens are know to exist (Jaeger and Bowers).
Ref: Obverse is the same as Baker 53F, but this medal is unlisted in Baker; see Jaeger and Bowers, p. 77.

mrearlygold

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Wow, that's really cool! What's that or one like it worth? I absolutely need to get one or more of those!

jmski52

66Tbird

From the BST from a few years back. Thank you K It's one of only a few dozen coins I have raw.

Flatwoods

That Declaration of Independence medal is exceedingly cool.

As long as we're doing electrotypes here's another with an edge view.

yellowkid

NewEnglandRarities

The Declaration of Independence electrotype medals are really cool and are quite rare. As mentioned by Broadstruck, they were made circa 1851. I believe (have to check my records) that the one I posted before was the David Bowers reference specimen. I purchased it from a dealer at the ANA Convention in Boston. These electrotypes are quite rare. I have handled two examples of the signatures reverse, and I know there is a third. I purchased it from a dealer at the ANA Convention in Boston. Here is another example with a North America reverse, which is currently considered unique.

savoyspecial

hey Broadstruck,

would this be Exxon-numia? Link

Pistareen

The electrotyped CC Wright medals are very cool items. I figured this might add to the conversation ...

It's a production electrotype (i.e. not a later copy) that was never finished. Before the obverse and reverse shells were joined at the rim (leaving behind the telltale seam that we now use as a diagnostic), this how all specimens of this medal looked. Somehow, this one just never got put together. That's lead that's visible on the reverse.

I have a few unfinished electrotypes, just sets of matched shells that were never assembled, that I use in my Summer Seminar class -- nothing illustrates what an electro really is better.

Twobitcollector

Bicentennial Wagon Train Pilgrimage

Broadstruck

<< <i>hey Broadstruck,

would this be Exxon-numia? Link >>





Bring back your old avatar/icon as I didn't recognize you at first

ricko

Some very cool tokens here.. but the Declaration of Independence token is amazing...never saw that one before. Cheers, RickO