Circa 1816 Halliday medal. Musante GW-57, Baker-70. White Metal. Ornamented rims. SP-61 (PCGS).

53.7 mm. 808.4 grains. Medium pewter gray with generous prooflike reflectivity remaining in the fields. Slightly darker on the motifs, rims, and letters of the legend, forming a pleasing contrast with the fields. Scattered handling marks as one would expect for the grade, but there really aren't any that can be called distracting. A few small pesting spots are also noted, one at the final E of GEORGE on the obverse and one near 10:00 on the reverse, neither of which is severe. The overall eye appeal is very nice for a rare white metal Halliday. Ornamented rims as typically seen on the white metal examples but finished here with a chevron-shaped pattern like that seen on the nice Baker Collection specimen sold in our November 2019 auction. Clearly struck after the other white metal specimen offered here, as the lower right ground of the reverse, under the HED of RELINQUISHED, has been weakened in the die from die polishing. Additionally, the patch of spalling between the I and S of COMMISSIONED has been slightly smoothed out from the die but remains visible.

From the E Pluribus Unum Collection. Earlier from our (Stack's) sale of March 1994, lot 459.