Bolen c1867 Jefferson/Webster Medal | MS64RB | Only One Known to Exist with MS!

Description

Own a piece of scarce American history
All reasonable offers will be considered!
PCGS HAS VALUED THIS MEDAL AT 0,000 USD - ITEM HAS BEEN PRICED TO SELL!
10% of the price will be donated to Mental Health America.
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Very Scarce
(c.1867) Thomas Jefferson and Daniel Webster Copper Muling by J.A. Bolen
JAB-K-2
This piece is one of a kind and the only one known to exist using Copper. This piece will be a nice addition to any rare coin or Bolen medal collection.
MEDAL HISTORY
BOLEN, John Adams (1826-1906) diesinker, copyist, medalist. Springfield, Massachusetts. Born New York City, 10 November 1826. Moved to Springfield, Massachusetts in 1850. In business as a diesinker, jeweler and agent for a sewing machine firm. Actively created dies 1861-69. Bolen first copied rare Colonial coins; these pieces are accepted today by numismatists for what they are: struck copies. He also created patriotic medals and storecards/tokens.He was weak creating new designs, but was an excellent copyist.
His dies are characterized by stark devices without further symbolism or decoration often with reverses which were entirely typographic. Bolen kept meticulous records of his mintage figures or all his dies struck in several compositions (and mulings!). These figures were reported by Edward L. Johnson, P4 {1882}. Bolen corrected some of these in a list he published later, M6 {1905}. However, after the Bolen dies were dispersed to Frank Smith Edwards, John W. Kline (q.v.) and William Elliot Woodward, these men all restruck Bolen dies anew, often muling these with each other (and without recording mintage records). Bolen died Springfield, Massachusetts, 14 March 1906. Major work: John Adams. Bolen and his medallic work was the subject of an extensive study by Neil E. Musante. As a class, these mulings are rare. Out of 15 identified variants listed by Musante, he commented that he had only seen six of them.