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San Martín Medal and O'Higgins
1903
Mint: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Diameter and weight: 56 mm, 82 gm (2 3/16 in., 2.89 oz.)
Credit Line
Gift of Cornelius C. Vermeule III
Accession Number2005.1171
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CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsNumismatics – Medals
DescriptionObv: A winged figure with a sword and laurel over a jugate portrait of José de San Martín and Bernardo O'Higgins, with an eagle below them carrying a banner that reads SAN MARTIN at left and O'HIGGINS at right.
Rev: A wreath of laurel, palmetto, and oak, supporting two shields in the foreground at left; in the distance at right an ariel view of an encampment is surmounted by CAMPO DE MAYO / REVISTA MILITAR / 28 DE MAYO 1903, signed at the bottom: LAVARELLO ESC. and GOTUZZO GRA.
Edge: plain
Rev: A wreath of laurel, palmetto, and oak, supporting two shields in the foreground at left; in the distance at right an ariel view of an encampment is surmounted by CAMPO DE MAYO / REVISTA MILITAR / 28 DE MAYO 1903, signed at the bottom: LAVARELLO ESC. and GOTUZZO GRA.
Edge: plain
ProvenanceSold Collectors Auctions Limited, Danbury, CT, September 8, 1990, lot 2515 (one of a group of three), to Cornelius C. Vermeule, III; to MFA, 2005.