
Image Information
Type | Medal |
Title | Ship of the Line Virginia 1873 Quarter |
Date | 1873 |
Country | United States |
Side | reverse |
Composition | silver |
Description | Alan V. Weinberg comments: Splendid semi-prooflike near Unc 1873 quarter with reverse peripheral legends effaced and hand-engraved " U.S. Ship of the Line Virginia. Keel Laid, 1821. Broke Up, 1874. " Smashed presumably on a reef. Superbly hand-engraved and certainly unique. No evidence on the reeded edge of any suspension attachment ever having been present. |
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