A Featured Collection in Our November 5-6, 2015 Baltimore Auction.
The name John W. Adams is uttered wherever serious American numismatists gather. Widely published and broadly respected for his research contributions to such fields as American numismatic literature, United States large cents, and early American medals, John W. Adams has been a consigner to this firm and its predecessors for more than three decades.
In 1982, we sold the Adams collection of 1794 large cents by variety, a collection where provenance played as important a role as rarity and condition. In 2001, duplicates from his prodigious cabinet of Betts medals were offered in one of our Baltimore auctions, and in 2009 his Indian Peace medals were the anchor consignment to our American sale.
We are proud to offer further selections from the John W. Adams collection of Betts medals, encompassing an era from the 1766 passage of the Stamp Act to the aftermath of the American Revolution.
Highlights include the famous Battle of Germantown medal, awarded to members of the 40th Regiment of Foot in honor of their valor at the 1777 battle on the outskirts of Philadelphia; the Resolution and Adventure medal, given by Captain James Cook to natives of the Pacific regions he explored; a silver Washington Voltaire medal, a rare format for the first Washington medal ever struck, and the extremely rare 1783 Felicitas Britannia and Americana medal, struck to mark the Treaty of Paris, using a reverse design borrowed from the Continental dollar.
The John W. Adams Collection will be offered Friday, November 6 in Session 5 of our November 2015 Baltimore Auction. Bidding begins at 6:00 p.m. in Room 308.
