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Lot 405

Estimate: 550 USD
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United States, Paul Morphy, ND (c.1860), Token, NGC, MS65, BN; United States, Paul Morphy, ND (c.1860) Token, NGC. MS65, BN, Finest known. This token or medalet is the 3rd and last in a series created by Augustus B. Sage who in 1858 founded the American Numismatic Society. Its subject is Paul Morphy, an American chess prodigy who has been reviered as one of the Greatest chess masters of his era. Morphy is frequently mentioned in Walter Tevis's novel The Queen's Gambit as the favourite player of the main character, a chess prodigy named Beth Harmon.
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