Owner Comments:
THIS MEDAL COMMEMORATES ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S (2) PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS AND THE DATE OF HIS ASSASSINATION.
THESE MEDALS WERE STRUCK SOMETIME IN THE 1880'S BY THE U.S. MINT AS COMMEMORATIVES OF PAST PRESIDENTS THAT HAD PASSED AWAY PRIOR TO THAT TIME. THESE JULIAN U.S. MINT MEDALS WITH "PR" IN THE TYPE WERE MADE FOR THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY PASSED AWAY (POST REQUIEM) EITHER WHILE IN OFFICE OR AFTER THEY HAD LEFT OFFICE. YOU MAY FIND THESE IN BRONZE, SILVER, AND GOLD.
THIS EXAMPLE IS NOT LISTED IN THE NGC CENSUS, AS THERE ARE NO MS 66 BN EXAMPLES SHOWN. THERE IS (1) MS 67 BN EXAMPLE OF THIS MEDAL LISTED FINER OF ONLY (17) IN THE NGC CENSUS AS OF 9/2023.
A PCGS GRADED MS 64 BN EXAMPLE OF THIS MEDAL SOLD FOR $1,200.00 IN A HERITAGE AUCTION IN JANUARY 2019.
AN NGC GRADED MS 64 BN EXAMPLE WAS SOLD FOR $1,320.00 BY HERITAGE AUCTIONS IN 2018.
Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the U.S. economy.