Baldwin & Sons
Argentum Auction Fall 2015 7 November 2015
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WORLD MEDALS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Copper "Salvator Patriae" Memorial Medal, by the Wyon family, after Emil Sigel, bust right, rev IN MEMORY OF ..., within wreath, 35.5mm (R P King [Numismatist 1924], Lincoln in Numismatics, 252). Virtually mint state and rare.
Sigel's medal was sponsored by the American Numismatic and Archaelogical Society and their name still shows on a ribband woven into the wreath on the reverse, even though they had no involvement with the medal. The medallist's signature has been removed. In fact the obverse and reverse dies of this medal were cut in England by the Wyon family "so as to show the work of a reducing machine in copying from the original medal of size 83mm."
Estimate: £80-120
Sigel's medal was sponsored by the American Numismatic and Archaelogical Society and their name still shows on a ribband woven into the wreath on the reverse, even though they had no involvement with the medal. The medallist's signature has been removed. In fact the obverse and reverse dies of this medal were cut in England by the Wyon family "so as to show the work of a reducing machine in copying from the original medal of size 83mm."
Estimate: £80-120