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426, Lot: 626. Estimate $400.
Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEDALS. George Washington. 1732-1799. Æ Medal (76mm, 135.2 g, 12h). Struck in England by Daniel Eccleston. Dies by Thomas Webb. Dated 1805. GENERAL WASHINGTON (from 11 o’clock to 1 o’clock clockwise) INSCRIBED TO HIS MEMORY BY D: ECCLESTON• LANCASTER MDCCCV• (from 10 o’clock to 2 o’clock counterclockwise), draped and cuirassed bust right of George Washington, his hair tied with a ribbon / HE LAID THE FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN LIBERTY IN THE XVIII CENTURY/INNUMERABLE MILLIONS YET UNBORN WILL VENERATE THE MEMORY_/OF THE MAN WHO OBTAINED THEIR COUNTRYS FREEDOM (in three concentric circular lines), a native American standing facing, head left, draped at the waist, holding an upright arrow with his right hand, leaning on a bow with his left arm, quiver over his shoulder; around, THE LAND WAS OURS•. Baker 85. VF, some light porosity, edge knocks, marks, scratches.