Tyrant Alcohol Medalet-Washingtonian Society

According to the book I have, this medalet is silver.

Baker 332D has a plain edge instead of a reeded edge. 332D is listed as unique.

I took a look at the Heritage Auction archive and the one id'd as Baker-332D. It has two rosettes on each side (at roughly the 3 and 9 o'clock positions) whereas the one you post only has a single one in the same spots. The obverse of 332D has BALE F. under the wreath stems.

I then punched Baker 332 into the search box and took a look yours matches that one. The single rosette I mentioned above and on the obverse it only states BALE under the wreath stems. It should have a reeded edge.

I am not an expert but it appears that NGC has mistakenly attributed this as the 332D when it should be Baker 332. There is quite a price difference between the two.

I wouldn't rely solely on a third party grading company's attributions as they tend to make mistakes.


-MV

Thank you all! I am almost embarrassed that I didn't look closer at the 332d that that sold on heritage as it is clearly a completely different die than this piece. I highly doubt that I will sell this in the future but I do feel obligated to send it back to NGC for proper attribution as to not let any future owner get confused. I appreciate the warm welcome to the forum and all of the help!

Upon researching more on the same Heritage auction and in Bakers book it appears that mine is the Baker 332d and the one that sold on HA is another variety. It is a plain edge and the denticles are deceiving. I have some pictures of both sent out to a Washingtonian expert.

What does Rulau and Fuld say about the Tyrant Alcohlol medalets? A picture of that information would be great to have. He has stated that both my 332d and the other one are correct. Until himself or someone else writes a new reference that details the sub varieties they will both be referred to as 332d. This is coming from an expert who owns 75% of all known examples! No wonder it has been such a difficult puzzle to solve!

Here are a couple of scans of the pages from the book, Medallic Portraits of Washington 2nd Edition I cited earlier. I had trouble keeping them from getting blurry. On the second one, I put the Baker #'s since that was the only area that was blurry.

After enlisting the help of 2 of the best Washingtonian/Temperance collectors and dealers I have found that both mine and the one in Au are 332D and that until someone makes a sub variety then they will be referred to as such! Very excited to know that this already rare piece is even more hard to find!