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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 8644273, member: 101855&quot;]The second medal, the William Henry Harrison piece, is a good item, to the right person, is worth some money. It is listed in DeWitt - Sullivan as WHH 1836-1. It was thought to be the only William Henry Harrison piece that was issued for the 1836 presidential election.</p><p><br /></p><p>That year the Whig Party ran three regional candidates, Hugh White from the South, Daniel Webster from the Northeast and Harrison from the West. The idea was to split up the vote so that the election would go to the House of Representatives, where the Whigs hoped to win as they did in 1825. Martin Van Buren won anyway, but Harrison did well enough to capture the Whig nomination in 1840 and eventually win the presidency that year.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have an example of this piece which questions the 1836 date for this piece. It is struck over and 1838 large cent! Of course the medal could have been issued for both elections.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my example. If you have Rulau&#039;s book on Hard Times tokens, this is the piece to which he referred in a Joe Levine auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1517516[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1517517[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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