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Auction 40 11 January 2017
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WORLD COINS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, George Washington (1732-1799). Daniel Eccleston's Bronze 'Tribute' Medal, 1805. 75.5 mm, 150.2g, by Thomas Webb. His armoured bust right. Rev. Standing figure of an American Indian, THE LAND WAS OURS, further legend in three concentric lines around. (Baker 85). Edge bruised, pierced at top. About Very fine.
Daniel Eccleston had traveled extensively in the United States, he had "sailed down Lake Champlain and Lake George, in a birch-bark canoe, with the King of the Connawaga nation ..." and had met Washington. He returned to Lancaster from where, in 1794, he issued a Halfpenny token bearing his portrait.
from the collection of medals formed by William Victor Royle Baldwin (known as Roy or Uncle Roy), one of A H Baldwin & Sons Ltd founder's three sons, he was born in 1893
Estimate: $ 300
Daniel Eccleston had traveled extensively in the United States, he had "sailed down Lake Champlain and Lake George, in a birch-bark canoe, with the King of the Connawaga nation ..." and had met Washington. He returned to Lancaster from where, in 1794, he issued a Halfpenny token bearing his portrait.
from the collection of medals formed by William Victor Royle Baldwin (known as Roy or Uncle Roy), one of A H Baldwin & Sons Ltd founder's three sons, he was born in 1893
Estimate: $ 300