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Lot 0970 1925 Stone Mountain 50C PCGS MS67

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Lot 0970 1925 Stone Mountain 50C PCGS MS67
Lightly toned. A satiny and lustrous gem with a nuance of faint toning on both sides. The strike is virtually complete on Jackson and Lee, the two Civil War generals depicted on horseback*, with excellent detail on both sides.

*For purposes of fairness, we append the following history of one of the horses: In the spring of 1861, while he was in command at Harper's Ferry, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson acquired the horse that he rode throughout the war. Although the horse was originally purchased by Jackson as a gift for his wife and initially named "Fancy," this name was short-lived. Jackson decided to keep the horse, and it was universally known as "Little Sorrel." Jackson died as a result of "friendly fire," a euphemism for being killed by your own troops. He was shot at Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863, by an unknown member or members of the 18th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. Little Sorrel died in March 1886, at the age of 36, and his mounted hide is now on display in the Virginia Military Institute Museum in Lexington, Virginia. Little Sorrel's bones were cremated and interred on the grounds of VMI in 1997. (No information is available as to where General Jackson's hide is mounted or displayed, although we do know where his amputated arm is buried.)