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Lr. 841 — Victoria - Prince of Wales Royal Visit Indian Peace Medal. 1860/1840. Silver.

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:15,000.00 CAD Estimated At:30,000.00 - 40,000.00 CAD
Lr. 841 — Victoria - Prince of Wales Royal Visit Indian Peace Medal. 1860/1840. Silver.
SOLD
15,000.00CAD+ buyer's premium (3,000.00)
This item SOLD at 2024 Oct 04 @ 21:01UTC-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 all sessions of the Toronto Coin Expo Spring Sale have concluded.

Breton-25, Jamieson-34, BHM-1975, Eimer-1347b. 60.0mm. 85.1g. Plain edge. Signed W. WYON R.A. Original suspension loop at 12 o’clock. The second size and the rarest of the three issued to Indigenous allies during the Prince of Wales’ 1860 Royal Visit. There are examples in the Glenbow Museum in Calgary and the American Numismatic Society in New York, and two more were included in the Ford and Partrick holdings. We last handled this piece as part of our Toronto Coin Expo Fall 2017 sale. The surfaces have a somewhat matte-like texture and are moderately bright and hairlined from cleaning. The latter is not necessarily detrimental to the medal’s significance, as awarded medals were frequently polished by their recipients.
Ex: Toronto Coin Expo Fall Sale (Geoffrey Bell Auctions, 9/2017), lot 1225, where it brought $24,000.

This is part of the Geoffrey Bell Collection.