Medal - America's First Medals Colonel De Fleury

Medal - America's First Medals (Colonel De Fleury) - obverseMedal - America's First Medals (Colonel De Fleury) - reverse

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Features

Location United States
Type Souvenir medals › Replica
Year 1980
Composition Pewter
Weight 20.7 g
Diameter 38 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
119041

Obverse

Image of a Ares/Mars with bare sword, trampling enemy banner underfoot, in the ruins of a fortress.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
Virtutis Et Audaciæ Monum. Et Præmium
d. De Fleury Equiti Gallo
Primo Super Muros
Resp. Americ. D. d

Translation:
A memorial and reward of courage and boldness.
The American Republic Presented this gift to D. de Fleury, a French Knight, the first to mount the walls.

Reverse

Stony Point, water batteries, and six ships.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
Aggeres Paludes Hostes Victi
Stony - Pt. Expugn
Xv July MDCCLXXIX
reproduction 1980

Translation:
Fortifications, marshes, enemies overcome
Stony - Point carried by storm
July 15 1779

Mint

United States Mint of Philadelphia, United States (1792-date)

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1980  $ 1.60

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