United States of America

United States of America, George Washington before Boston, copper medal, 1776, from the 'Comitia Americana' series, by [Pierre Simon] Benjamin Duvivier and an original French striking, head of Washington right, his hair tied en queue, GEORGIO WASHINGTON SVPREMO DVCI EXERCITVVM ADSERTORI LIBERTATIS, rev., Washington and officers on horseback, the city of Boston beyond, HOSTIBUS PRIMO FUGATIS, 68.85mm (Baker 47b; Adams & Bentley, Ch. 3; Julian MI. 1; Stahl 22; Ford II, Stack's auction, 11 May, 2004, 50-52). A choice example, extremely fine, with dark chocolate patination, minimal rubbing to the highest spots, and a few minor scuff-marks, the obverse shows the usual rust-marks of an original striking, 'spots' below M of SVPREMO, below the tip of the hair through the E of ADSERTORI and others, the reverse with early signs of buckling, the line best visible in the sky above Boston.

The Adams & Bentley census records 52 examples in copper.