拍品 199
  • 199

UNITED STATES, CHIEF WAH-SHE-HAH (BACON RIND), OSAGE MEDAL, 1911

估價
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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描述

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Silver. Struck by Edward Knox Elder. WAH-SHAH-SHE KAH-HE-KEH – WAH-SHE-HAH, three-quarter facing bust of Chief Wah-She-Ha, rev., ME-KAH-SHIN-KAH WAH-SHA-SHE | E-KO-WAH-E-TAH-PE – O’MOIE-KAH-THA-1911 | E.K.ELDER, clasped hands below crossed tomahawk and peace pipe, 38.1 mm, pierced, but a blue-toned proof

來源

F.C.C. Boyd Collection; John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, part XVI, Stack’s, October 17, 2006, lot 188

拍品資料及來源

Five of these medals were struck in silver by Indian trader Edward Knox Elder; according to the Smithsonian, the medal was designed by his brother, the well-known coin dealer, Thomas L. Elder.