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Coin Details

Origin/Country: United States
Design Description: AMERICAN POLITICAL MEDALS 1789-1892 - DEWITT
Item Description: BRASS 24mm 1860 CAMPAIGN DEWITT-AL-1860-59, BRASS ABRAHAM LINCOLN DEWTT-AL-1860-59
Full Grade: NGC VF Details
Owner: AVALEIGH

Set Details

Custom Sets: U.S. POLITICAL MEDALS
Competitive Sets: This coin is not competing in any sets.
Research: NGC Coin Explorer NGC Coin Price Guide
NGC US Coin Census for American Political Medals (1789-1892) - Dewitt

Owner Comments:

ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1860 ; Medalet promoting the Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln for president. : Obv. Inscription around, "MILLIONS FOR FREEDOM 1860", enclosing inverted palm sprays; "NOT/ONE/CENT".star, "FOR SLAVERY". / Rev. Around, "SUCCESS TO REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES", enclosing displayed eagle with shield on breast, olive branch in right talon and arrows in left. J Doyle DeWitt states that this token was"probably one of the earliest pieces of the campaign". Fashioned after an earlier Whig token (Low 58), it demonstrates the centrality of the slavery issue to the Republican platform, though Lincoln himself tried to remain neutral on this question, opposing only the extension of slavery into the territories, and not the institution itself.

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