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<B>1781 MEDAL Libertas Americana Medal MS65 Brown NGC.</B></I> Betts-615. Bronze. This historic Libertas Americana medal, commissioned by Benjamin Franklin and produced by the Paris Mint in France. The portrait of Liberty, with her free-flowing curls and a Liberty cap atop a pole behind her shoulder, had an obvious influence on the half cents of 1793 to 1797, and the cents of 1793 to 1796. The reverse of the medal depicts the infant America, protected by an Amazon-like France from the aggressive British lion. America is strangling two snakes, which represent the battles of Yorktown and Saratoga, important American victories whose dates appear on the exergue. Diagnostic obverse die lumps near 3 and 7 o'clock are characteristic of this scarce and coveted medal. A fully struck and satiny chocolate-brown piece with a solitary faded mark noted near the bust tip.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Coins & Currency (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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