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Electronic Auction 401  12 July 2017
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Lot 713

Estimate: 100 USD
Price realized: 130 USD
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UNITED STATES. Æ Medal (76mm, 210.58 g, 12h). Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of Princeton University. By T. S. Clarke. Dated 1896 in Roman numerals. View of Nassau Hall; in two lines in exergue, AVLA NASSOVICA/MDCCCXCVI / QVOD ANTEA FVIT/COLLEGIVM/NEOCAESARIENSE/NVNC ANNIS+CL+IMPLETIS/VNIVERSITAS/PRINCETONIENSIS/SAECVLVM SPECTAT/NOVVM (Princeton University, what was once a neo-Caesarian college, now celebrates a new age after 250 years) in eight lines; DEI SVB NVMINE VICET (nurtured under the name of God) on banner above. For an article on the medal, see "The Sesquicentennial Memorial Medal," in Princeton College Bulletin, Vol. VIII, No. 1 (January 1896), p. 99. EF, warm brown surfaces.

Duplicates from the Kisch Medal Collection sold on behalf of the American Numismatic Society.
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