August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
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Description
1939 United States Assay Commission Medal. JK AC-84. Rarity-6. Bronze. Specimen-63 (PCGS).
57 mm. Standard Mint tan-gold finish shows traces of darkening on the high points. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. is depicted on the obverse of this year's Assay Commission medal. He stirred up controversy at the end of World War II with his plan to reduce Germany to an agrarian nation. His unauthorized handover of glass printing plates for Allied Occupation currency to the Soviet Union also caused enormous harm to plans to create a unified, democratic Germany. The reverse design is among the more popular in this series as it depicts the old Mint technique of pouring molten metal into ingot molds, which would later be rolled out to provide planchet strips for coinage.
From our (Stack's) sale of the Ernest E. Keusch Collection of United States Assay Medals, 1860-1977, November 2008, lot 5336.
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| Price realized | 380 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 1'000 USD |
