Medals Depicting Civil War Events
Fort Sumter / Maj. Anderson Medal
Silver, 70.7mm
(image courtesy of Alan Weinberg - The Zabriskie Collection)
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Bronze, 70.7mm
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White metal (silver plated?), 70.7mm
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Bombardment of Fort Sumter Medal - Type I
HK 11, white metal, 34mm
HK 11b, brass, 34mm
(image courtesy of an anonymous collector)
HK 11c, copper, 34mm
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HK 11f, silver, 34mm
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A silver variety of this medal is not listed in the So-called Dollars
catalog and was seemingly unknown until this example was
certified by NGC in November of 2017.
Bombardment of Fort Sumter Medal - Type II
HK 11a, brass, 34mm
(on line image)
HK 11d, white metal, 34mm
(image courtesy of Stacks Bowers)
HK 11e, copper, 34mm
(image courtesy of Heritage)
This reverse is also found with a George McClellan Campaign medalet
from 1864 and that may have been the original combination. The obverse
of this campaign medalet is also found with the obverse of HK 11 but is
not listed in the So-Called Dollars catalog, probably because it is a
political piece. DeWitt list it as GMcC 1864-8(D) but does not
indicate what metals it is found in. Below is a silver example.
DeWitt GMcC 1864-8(D), silver, 33.8mm
This reverse is also found with a George McClellan Campaign medalet
from 1864 and that may have been the original combination. The obverse
of this campaign medalet is also found with the obverse of HK 11 but is
not listed in the So-Called Dollars catalog, probably because it is a
political piece. DeWitt list it as GMcC 1864-8(D) but does not
indicate what metals it is found in. Below is a silver example.
DeWitt GMcC 1864-8(D), silver, 33.8mm
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Monitor / Merrimac Medalet
Schenkman MM4, copper, 31mm
Schenkman MM4, brass, 31mm
Schenkman MM4, silver, 31mm
Lot 1834 in a
Bang's, Merwin & Co. Sale, January 1863, was a set of these tokens
described as copper, brass, and tin. Could they have mistaken a silver
example for tin? I am not aware of the existence of any tin or white
metal examples.
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Electrotype, 31.08mm