LOT Old Heritage Auctions  /  2008 Feb Long Beach, CA Tokens & Medals #462  / 

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Rare Ancient Greek Coin with Gold Presentation

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:975.00 USD Estimated At:1.00 - 1,000,000.00 USD
Rare Ancient Greek Coin with Gold Presentation
<B>Rare Ancient Greek Coin With Gold Presentation Outer Ring.</B></I> Gold/silver. This is an outstanding award medal made by using an ancient Greek owl tetradrachm, circa 408-359 B.C., and a gold outer ring that has been engraved "Phelps Greek Prize for Sight Reading Grinnell 1928 John H. Spencer." Dr. John H. Spencer was born in 1907 and died on Aug. 25, 2005. He was well known for meritorious conduct. He excelled in the vast Ethiopian history and its complex diplomatic articulations. Spencer left his famous book for us, <I>Ethiopia at Bay: A Personal Account of the Haile Selassie Years,</B></I> to be used as an important reference. It covers the war period in the 1930s between Ethiopia and Italy as well as the postwar era. Spencer earned a B.A. in 1929 from Grinnell College in Iowa and an M.A. from Harvard. He also earned a State Doctorate in Law from the University of Paris and an L.L.B. from Harvard Law School. He was a legal advisor to the Government of Ethiopia in the 1930s and '40s all the way into the 1970s. It was said that upon his death, Ethiopians had indeed lost a precious friend as a defender of their homeland. This incredible piece should be resting in a display case at Grinnell College.<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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