1893 Springfield Masonic Temple Cornerstone medal by J.A. Bolen. Musante JAB-41. Copper. MS-65 RB (PCGS).

28.6 mm. 153.8 grains. Rosy copper has mellowed throughout to a dusky shade but faded to deep violet and blue at the reverse center. Sharp and prooflike with just a few faint lines in the fields. The Musante Collection included the original Bolen Collection specimen, with the characteristic "B" edge mark. This example must have been added to the collection later, though there is no indication as to when or by whom. The 1905 Bolen listing gives the mintage in copper as 250 pieces, but they seem scarcer than that mintage might suggest. The original brass medal from the Bolen reference collection was purchased by the ANS in 1948, while the white metal piece is in the lot to follow, so all three Bolen specimens are accounted for, though they traveled three different paths. Board Position: E 2

From the E Pluribus Unum Collection.