Owner Comments:
THERE ARE ONLY (3) PROOFLIKES OF THIS 40MM SIZE LISTED IN THE NGC CENSUS, WITH ONE GRADED MS 64 PL FINER AS OF 8/2023. THERE ARE (5) MS 63'S AND (2) MS 64'S IN THE 40MM SIZE FINER HOWEVER.
THE 40 MM SIZE FOR THESE MEDALS IS SIGNIFICANTLY RARER THAN THE 37 MM SIZE. NGC HAS GRADED (52) IN THE 37 MM SIZE VS ONLY (14) IN THE 40 MM SIZE AS OF 8/2023.
AN NGC GRADED MS 63 NON-PROOFLIKE EXAMPLE WAS SOLD BY HERITAGE AUCTIONS FOR $431.25. THIS ONE APPEARED TO BE A 40MM EXAMPLE, BUT THE HOLDER DID NOT IDENTIFY THE SIZE.
Struck by Boldenweck & Co, Chicago, who received design patents D20,196 and D20,195 for the obverse and reverse designs Oct. 7, 1890. Possibly designed by Rudolph Laubenheimer, who designed No. 297. Almost certainly not designed by Robert Lovett, as suggested by Eglit, since Lovett died more than a decade earlier. ALSO CATALOGUED AS EGLIT 36(WM).