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Category: U.S. Mint Medals - Julian
Mint: Philadelphia
Composition: Bronze
Diameter: 76mm
Edge: Plain
1852 Henry Clay Personal Medal NGC MS64 BN
This medal is NGC MS64 Brown, with no distracting marks, nice chestnut brown surfaces. Engraved by Charles Cushing Wright and struck at the U.S. Mint. The attribution is Julian-PE-8, Bronze.
About Henry Clay:
Leader of the Whig party and five times an unsuccessful presidential candidate, Henry Clay (1777-1852) played a central role on the stage of national politics for over forty years. He was secretary of state under John Quincy Adams, Speaker of the House of Representatives longer than anyone else in the nineteenth century, and the most influential member of the Senate during its golden age. In a parliamentary system, he would have undoubtedly become prime minister.
Clay’s personal magnetism made him one of America’s best-loved politicians; his elaborate scheming made him one of the most cordially hated. Through it all he displayed remarkable consistency of purpose: he was a nationalist, devoted to the economic development and political integration of the United States