Salathiel Ellis designed many of the Presidential Peace Medals, and this portrait of Abraham Lincoln is the basis for the design of the Lincoln Peace Medals, considered to be one of the top American medals made.
Using an original plaster cast created by Ellis, this galvano was produced by first creating a reverse mold of the plaster, treating it to conduct electricity, and immersing it in a bath of dissolved copper. An electric current is passed through the bath, and slowly copper molecules deposit on the reverse mold over several weeks, thickening to the point of rigidity. The reproduction is precise.
This is a modern galvano issued as a collector's item for the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. It was made by the same technology — electrogalvanic casting — employed by the U.S. Mint in 1861 to make the Lincoln die cast for the Indian Peace Medal Series. The result is a high relief produced with pure copper. Available in a limited quantity.
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