Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
November 2015 Baltimore Auction - Sess. A-C 5-6 November 2015
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PHILIPPINES. Japanese Occupation. Homma Medal in Silver With Loop, 1942. EXTREMELY FINE.
35.57 mm (sans loop); 17.73 gms. Basso-150. Type I with plain edge and loop. By Clemente Zamora. Japanese soldier in combat gear facing away at center gazing at the island of Corregidor in distance with commemorative legend above; Reverse: Two palm tress with fronds at top, four stars at center and filling the fields is a poem which Basso credits General Homma with writing. Again an example of slightly lower weight than would be expected if it were overstruck on a circulating Peso but this is probably due to the chaotic period they were manufactured in. Struck with different dies [SB(5) in the Czahor study] from the preceding piece but of equal quality in the strike with strong definition of detail. Light gray toning overall and with a few more light contact and handling marks, no rim bumps to note, the loop is not complete but looks to have been originally so and damaged later. EXTREMELY FINE.
From the Ray Czahor collection.
Estimate: $350.00- $500.00
35.57 mm (sans loop); 17.73 gms. Basso-150. Type I with plain edge and loop. By Clemente Zamora. Japanese soldier in combat gear facing away at center gazing at the island of Corregidor in distance with commemorative legend above; Reverse: Two palm tress with fronds at top, four stars at center and filling the fields is a poem which Basso credits General Homma with writing. Again an example of slightly lower weight than would be expected if it were overstruck on a circulating Peso but this is probably due to the chaotic period they were manufactured in. Struck with different dies [SB(5) in the Czahor study] from the preceding piece but of equal quality in the strike with strong definition of detail. Light gray toning overall and with a few more light contact and handling marks, no rim bumps to note, the loop is not complete but looks to have been originally so and damaged later. EXTREMELY FINE.
From the Ray Czahor collection.
Estimate: $350.00- $500.00