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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 8276316, member: 104064&quot;]The auction listing has more detail than the CBS article. It&#039;s possible that the original medal is at the bottom of the Ohio river. Or melted down, or who knows, of course. One of the bank robbers, Joseph Pluymart, escaped five times (!) and was on the run for 10 years afterwards. </p><p><br /></p><p>The story of this 1839 restrike is also quite interesting. And what I summarized originally from the CBS article was wrong - it passed &quot;out of the family&quot; at some point after 1914 when Jesse Neville died, not 1885. Then &quot;it was acquired from a descendent of J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr&quot; but the chain of ownership seems deliberately murky, perhaps to conceal the identity of the current owner. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-VKYS3/1781-1839-daniel-morgan-at-cowpens-medal-gold-562-mm-dies-by-jean-jacques-barre-after-dupre-betts-593-julian-mi-7-loubat-8-sp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-VKYS3/1781-1839-daniel-morgan-at-cowpens-medal-gold-562-mm-dies-by-jean-jacques-barre-after-dupre-betts-593-julian-mi-7-loubat-8-sp" rel="nofollow">https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-VKYS3/1781-1839-daniel-morgan-at-cowpens-medal-gold-562-mm-dies-by-jean-jacques-barre-after-dupre-betts-593-julian-mi-7-loubat-8-sp</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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