Feature Lot.
Lot 233 -
RARE The Pennsylvania Society gold medal, awarded (almost) annually since 1909; this example is from the family of the 1928 medallist William Williams Keen, Jr. (1837-1932), a well-known Civil War surgeon, physician and professor, the first brain surgeon in the United States and a president of the AMA, Philosophical Society and other organizations; diameter 70mm and weight 228.6 grams yielding 7.35 troy ounces gold; obverse has right bust of William Penn, designer's mark "JF Dec MCMIX" (.... Est. $15,000-17,500 HWC-B
Sold for US$ 13,000
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