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TOKENS AND MEDALS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
Medals
and tokens with George Washington's image began appearing before his
death and continue to be produced today. Washington's image appears on
more numismatic items than does the image of any other American historic
figure, with Lincoln likely a close second. And I would venture to say
that George H. Lovett engraved and struck more of these than any other
American medalist. He once said that he would place Washington's image
on anything if it would sell. And he did! A quick perusal of "Medallic
Portraits of Washington" shows his name appearing more frequently than
any other engraver.
For convenience sake I
have chosen to arrange this section according to the categories in the
current edition of "Medallic Portraits of Washington" by Russell Rulau
and George Fuld. At some future point in my cataloging efforts I may
modify this but it is an excellent starting point and the attributions
will be familiar to most exonumismatist. |
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