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1839 gold medal of Revolutionary War general called 'shocking and important discovery'
From CBS News, New York
Monday, March 28, 2022
When numismatist John Kraljevich of Fort Mill, South Carolina opened a box containing a unique solid gold medal that an auction house asked him to authenticate, his jaw dropped.
"My reaction was somewhere along the lines of, holy (expletive)," Kraljevich said. "As soon as I laid my eyes on it, I knew what it was."
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Indeed, it was the original and only gold Daniel Morgan at Cowpens Medal struck by the Philadelphia Mint in 1839.
Untraced since 1885, an anonymous owner consigned the medal to be auctioned April 4-8 at Stack's Bowers Galleries in Costa Mesa, California.
"Struck in impressive relief and superlative detail, this medal is the finest medallic effort of its age and, perhaps, any other," Stack's Bowers Galleries wrote of the one-of-a-kind medal.
The pre-auction sales estimate is $250,000 to $500,000. ...
... For the remainder of the report and a photograph of the medal:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daniel-morgan-at-cowpens-medal-1839-discovery-auction/
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