Albert Frey King of Elephants Medal, 1905 – Medals Relating to New York Numismatic Club Members. Medal in Cast Bronze Goldplate. (46mm, 75.50 g, 12h). Artist: Howland Wood.

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Albert Frey King of Elephants Medal, 1905 – Medals Relating to New York Numismatic Club Members. Medal in Cast Bronze Goldplate. (46mm, 75.50 g, 12h). Artist: Howland Wood. ΠPOEΔPOΣ ANA (Editor ANA), head in top hat left, artist’s signature in Greek ΞΥΛOΣ (Wood) to right / AΛBIPTOY BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΦPEYΩN EΛEΦANTΩN (of Albert Frey King of Elephants) around, Bactrian-style elephant right. Edge: plain. IoC p. 255. As made. One of only 6 medals cast in honor of Frey.

From the Dr. Jay M. Galst Collection. Ex Stack’s Bowers Galleries (6 November 2013), lot 24 (Price realized $1,292.50).

Albert R. Frey was a founder and charter member of the New York Numismatic Club, serving as its first Vice-President from 1908 to 1918. He served as the sixth president of the American Numismatic Association from 1905 to 1907. Frey was famous as an unabashed elephant enthusiast. Illustrated at the end of Part XLVII of Frey’s series on “Tokens and Medals Relating to Numismatists and Coin Dealers,” The Numismatist, December 1905, p. 365. In its coverage of ANA participation in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, the publication told of Frey’s repeated visits to Carl Hagenbeck’s famed animal exhibition with pockets stuffed full of peanuts for the wildly approving baby elephants.

Closing Date and Time: 26 May 2021 at 15:26:40 ET.

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