I found this in a box of coins from a auction can some help me with this and does it have any value ? Looks polished or cleaned to me
http://www.coins.nd.edu/WashToken/WashTokenText/1790.html Hope this helps a little, but yours appears to be composed of something different.
I read that before asking on here that article just confused me that much more, thank you for suggesting the page though Sandy59
It looks like yours is the pewter reproduction done by the US Mint Here are the Ebay results for what looks to be your coin. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=washington+before+boston&_sacat=0
This is one of 10 pewter medals in the U.S. Mint's 1973 Bicentennial set, "Medals Commemorating Battles of the American Revolution." See my ad of July 5 for Mint Medals, in the picture, yours is the medal at upper right. Value $5 to $7 based on the price I'm asking for the set of 10.
That helps me alot wanting to list it on the Webstore wanting to make sure what it was. Do think it has been cleaned ? Finaly after being on here these couple of years I finaly asked a question .
Bicentennial Medals Sandy. Beautifully struck, wonderful to look at, but alas not worth much........ http://www.cointalk.com/members/green18/albums/americas-first-medals/
For Sandy59, I don't think your medal has been cleaned. The Mint processed them in a way to maximize lustre, mine look about the same as yours.
Yeah. Just look at my Washington medal. Mine impart absolutely no luster at all. I think it's more of a 'pewter' thing........
some further info This is not "just a bicentennial medal". this design represents the first medal authorised by the Continental Congress. The reverse of this medal depicts George Washington overlooking Boston with the cannons that he had captured from Fort Ticonderoga beside him. It is titled Washington before Boston and represents his victory over the British on March 17, 1776 (evacuation day is how Bostonians justify taking St Patricks day off from work). Just eight days after this victory, on March 25, 1776, Continental Congress authorised that a gold medal be designed to commemorate the occasion. the medal wasn't produced until 1798 and was presented to Washington March 21 1790 at mount vernon. The origional medal was 68 mm wide. There were reprints made from the origional dies in Paris in 1880. Here is one that I recently imaged for the Boston Numismatic Society. the origional gold medal now presides in the Boston Public Library Richard
All the 1973 Bicentennial medals (set of 10) had historical significance, of course. But as a collectible piece, it is just another Bicentennial medal, of negligible value; at least it has the pedigree of being an official U.S. Mint issue.
yes, the 1973 series, except for the U.S. Mint Medallion, were all reproductions of the Commiti Americana medals, the first medal set issued in America by the government.
