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Horatio Gates
After: Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux (French, 1751–1832)
dated 1777
Medium/Technique
Bronze
Dimensions
Diameter and weight: 55 mm, 85.9 gm (2 3/16 in., 3.03 oz.)
Credit Line
Augustine Shurtleff Collection of Coins
Accession Number01.1675
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsNumismatics – Medals
Catalogue Raisonné
Loubat 2; Betts 557; Julian MI-2
DescriptionObv: HORATIO GATES DUCI STRENUO / around a bust facing left / in exergue: COMITIA AMERICANA / signed N. GATTEAUX below right shoulder.
Rev: SALUS REGIONUM SEPTENTRIONAL / in exergue: HOSTE AD SARADOGAM / IN DEDITION*ACCEPTO / DIE XVII*OCT*MDCCLXXVII / signed on the ground line at the left, GATTEAUX E.
Edge: plain with evidence of a blow hole from casting
Rev: SALUS REGIONUM SEPTENTRIONAL / in exergue: HOSTE AD SARADOGAM / IN DEDITION*ACCEPTO / DIE XVII*OCT*MDCCLXXVII / signed on the ground line at the left, GATTEAUX E.
Edge: plain with evidence of a blow hole from casting