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Lot 59
Sale 926 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Aug 20, 2021
10:00AM ET
Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$100 -
150
Price Realized
$156
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[EXONUMIA]. Civil War Battlefield Commemorative two-coin proof set. US Mint, 1995.
In a thermoplastic “Union” case with replica of ten-dollar coin with shield-breasted eagle. Half-dollar proof with drummer on recto, verso with “Enriching Our Future by Preserving the Past” above a cannon on the battlefield. -- Dollar with a soldier giving another a drink out of a canteen on recto; verso with “In great deeds something abides. / On great fields something stays. / Forms change and pass. Bodies disappear, / But spirits linger to consecrate ground / for the visionplace of souls. – Joshua Chamberlain.” -- In original US Mint box, excellent condition.



