Lot 80
80
New England Society for Promotion of Manufactures and Mechanic Arts Medal, 1826, silver, plain edge, 1,824.6 grains, 64 mm., dies by Christian Gobrecht (eighteen years before he became Chief Engraver at the Philadelphia mint), obv., N. ENGLAND SOC. FOR PROMOTION OF MANUFACTURES AND MECHANIC ARTS 1826 around bust of Archimedes, to right, rev., GENIUS INTELLIGENCE AND INDUSTRY TRIUMPH around names of several inventors, including Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Franklin, and Fulton, with several inventions depicted including steamboat, cotton gin, and printing press, extremely fine

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New England Society for Promotion of Manufactures and Mechanic Arts Medal, 1826, silver, plain edge, 1,824.6 grains, 64 mm., dies by Christian Gobrecht (eighteen years before he became Chief Engraver at the Philadelphia mint), obv., N. ENGLAND SOC. FOR PROMOTION OF MANUFACTURES AND MECHANIC ARTS 1826 around bust of Archimedes, to right, rev., GENIUS INTELLIGENCE AND INDUSTRY TRIUMPH around names of several inventors, including Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Franklin, and Fulton, with several inventions depicted including steamboat, cotton gin, and printing press, extremely fine