Presidential Coin & Antiques, Inc., Auction 86

Our 86th Exonumia Auction

PRESIDENTIAL COIN & ANTIQUE COMPANY, INC.

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elcome to our annual Token and Medal Auction. Due to some unexpected health issues, we are a bit

late in issuing this sale, which is somewhat smaller than usual. However, it is still filled with many rare and

desirable numismatic objects of history and art which will entice and educate collectors from many different

fields.

Our most unusual offering this time is a consignment of seventeen galvanos from the archives Presidential

Art Medals, Inc. PAM, under the leadership to James Harper, commissioned a number of popular medallic

series including (1) Presidents of the United States (2) Aviation Hall of Fame (3) Signers of the Declaration

of Independence (4) Statehood (5) World War II (6) Great Men of Medicine (7) Apollo (8) Skylab and (9)

Great Religions of the World. We proudly offer galvano plaques from five of these series in addition to special

memorial issues for President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Robert F. Kennedy.

We are pleased to offer another selection from the So-Called Dollar collection of Michigan numismatist Don

Ensley + some select additions for a total of over 250 pieces. Specialists in this area are virtually certain to find

many items of interest.

APresidential Sale would not be complete without a fine offering of Presidential tokens and medals. This sale is

no exception. We have an especially fine selection of Theodore Roosevelt material includingAssay Commission

Medals and rare art plaques. Other pieces of note include only the second known example of Baker 1A and an

extremely rare example of JP 1844-6, the “Friend of Equal Rights” shell medalet for James A. Polk.

Presidential always has a stellar offering of Official Inaugural Medals. Featured is an example of the rarely

seen Official Inaugural Medal for Calvin Coolidge. Also a Reagan “Sunday” Inaugural Medal for 1985 and a

mounted obverse process set, also for that year. Of interest to inaugural specialists will be the gold presentation

charms and silver Inaugural Committee silver medals for 1989, 1993, 1997 and 2005!

Our offering of U.S. Mint medals commences with eight Assay Commission medals; including three Theodore

Roosevelt portrait medals and three rarities from the Estate of Nellie Tayloe Ross, former Director of the U.S.

Mint. Other medals of interest include a John Paul Jones (NA-1) struck from original dies; an early striking

of First Steam Coinage (MT-21); an x-rare example of The Pennsylvania Gray Reserves Marksmanship medal

(MK-2) as well as three other seldom-seen marksmanship medal. (MK-22-28 & 29)

We again offer another specialized listing of 31 lots relating to the Statue of Liberty. Chief among these lots is

the 5 . 84 o z . American Car and Foundry Company WWI service medal struck in 14k gold,

If there is one area for which Presidential has come to be known, it is our offerings of art medals by renowned

sculptors and medalists. Our selection of medals from the Society of Medalists represents the work of many of

the 20

century’s finest American medalists. In addition the following sculptors are represented by at least one,

and sometimes, by numerous works:

Robert Aitken, Chester Beach, Edouard Blin, Gutzon Borglum, Victor D. Brenner, Alexandre Charpentier,

Lucien Coudray, Jo Davidson, Donald De Lue, Godefroid Devreese, Avard Fairbanks, Leonda Froehlich Finke,

John Flanagan, Laura Gardin Fraser, James Earle Fraser, Daniel Chester French, Emil Fuchs, Adlai S. Hardin,

Marcel Jovine, Julio Kilenyi, Isidore Konti, Georg Lober, Augustus Lukeman, R. Tait McKenzie, Paul

Manship, Marc Mellon, Pierre Morlon, John Mowbray-Clarke, Bela Lyon Pratt, Oscar Roty, Augustus Saint

Gaudens, Anton Scharff, Theodore Spicer-Simson, Jonathan Swanson, Maurice Thenot, and Jean Vernon,