Raynors HCA 2019-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/26/2019
Commemorative bronze medal, the largest medal in the Comitia Americana series, celebrating the victory over the British and their evacuation on March 17, 1776; with an undraped bust of Washington in profile right after a sculpture by Jean-Antoine Houdon on the obverse and the legend, "Georgio Washington, supremo duci exercituum, adsertori libertatis, Comitia Americana," and signed Duvivier, Paris F.; reverse showing the evacuation of Boston, with the American army advancing toward the city seen at a distance; the enemy retreating to their vessels; in the foreground General Washington appears on horseback with a group of officers; above, "Hostibus primo fugatis," and below, "Bostonium recuperatum XVII Martii MDCCLXXVI,”. nd.
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