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Engraved Civil War Disc

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:50.00 CAD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 CAD
Engraved Civil War Disc
SOLD
1,000.00CAD+ buyer's premium (200.00)
This item SOLD at 2020 Oct 01 @ 21:52UTC-4 : AST/EDT

Buyer’s Premiums will be added on all items as per the Terms & Conditions of the sale. Invoices will be emailed out after The Toronto Coin Expo.

We asked Wayne at E-Sylum for a bit of help on this one, for more reading please see: 2020-08-23 repot. Engraved ID discs are unique items invested with personal history beyond the medal’s generic image and legends. Those owned by a soldier layer military history of the unit the soldier served under on top of typically scant personal history. This disk is listed in Neil Musante’s Medallic Washington, Volume 1, Page 320., as “GW-262.” The obverse die with George Washington and “SECURITY” was created by Robert Lovett Jr. The obverse die survived long after the Civil War and was used by Thomas Elder as a model for a WW I dog tag that was not adopted by the Army, according to Neil Musante. These artifacts were not called “dog tags” until WW I. The reverse with four stars would be blank until engraved. This Federal ID Disc was struck in pewter or white metal, is holed as most all were, and has an iron bale ring for suspension. Engraved upon the reverse is: SGT. G. R. LEONARD.
Co. C.
29 TH O. V. I.
12 TH A. C.
CEDAR MTN.
CHANCELLORVILLE
GETTYSBURG.