CNG 87, Lot: 2045. Estimate $300. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

UNITED STATES. White Metal Medal (44mm, 36.06 g). Erie Canal Completion. A. Robertson, designer; C. C. Wright, engraver; M. Pedetreau, striker. Triply-dated 1817, 1825, and 1826. UNION OF ERIE WITH THE ATLANTIC, Trade (as Pan), with cornucopia, and the sea (as Neptune), holding trident, both seated on outcropping / ERIE CANAL COMM. 4 JULY 1817 COMP. 26 OCT. 1825, coat-of-arms; above, eagle standing right on partial globe, head left, with wings spread; in background, section of the canal with ship under sail left; in three lines in exergue, C. C. WRIGHT SC./1826/PRESENTED BY THE CITY OF N. YORK. H&K 1. EF, a few marks. Original wooden encasement included. Extremely rare and historically interesting.

From the Clarence & Helen Zaar Maritime Collection.