(Ca. 1859) Washington Medal

Musante GW-310, Baker-291 variety, struck in White Metal. Considered to be Unique. A striking piece, this is a muling of the beautiful C.C. Wright obverse with a reverse bearing the legend NON NOBIS SOLUM SED TOTI MUNDO NATI (which can be translated as Not for Ourselves but for the Whole World we are Born). Ex Stack’s Bowers November 2019 sale of the William Spohn Baker / Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collection, lot #20239; earlier S.H. and H. Chapman’s June 1882 sale of the Charles I. Bushnell Collection, lot #1400. SOLD