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Genuine, Fake and Fantasy Indian Peace Medals.

If YOU are interested in collecting Indian Peace Medals., please let me know YOUR interests via e-mail at hartzog@exonumia.com. We stock a wide variety of genuine Indian Peace medallic items. Do you have the BOOKs on these?

FAKE and FANTASY INDIAN PEACE MEDALS.

Unfortunately, with the increase in popularity and price of genuine Indian Peacemedals, the crooks and con-artists have moved in. Actually, the crooks moved in well over a hundred years ago! If you have a Peace medal and wonder if it is genuine, check the following. Please note that original copper medals were silver-plated over a hundred years ago, so the age of the collection producing the medal is NOT a good indication of it being genuine! Indians are known to have soldsilver-plated medals to collectors over 75 years ago.

There are three basic types of Indian Peace medals:

I. OVAL George Washington hand-engraved medals, and other hand-engraved medals. These are excessively rare and highly desirable awards to Indians, hand engraved by silversmiths on both sides. Sizes vary, and each is unique.
Every single oval Washington Peace medal sent me has been amodern copy!

Example of FAKE George Washington Oval Indian Peace Medal.



G. Washington, President, Standing Indian and warrior facing each other, reverse: The United States of America, eagle with shield on breast.
George Washington President 1792, Standing Indian and colonial man facing each other, reverse: eagle with shield on breast.
Also known: George Washington President1793.
Treaty of Greenville on scroll, below eagle with rays.
All originals are very rare and MUST be authenticated.

1. Is your oval medal a cast copy? Most of the oval Washington Indian Peace medals are cast copies of originals, often made many years ago to fill the cabinets of collectors who could not afford originals. Recently seen pieces are the wrong size! Original ovals are hand-engraved ona sheet of silver, and are finely made by master silversmiths. Please note the key words: Finely detailed! If your piece is crudely done, has mushy details, has a dark overall cast, and/or the individual lines are not clear and crisp, it is likely it is a copy.

2. Is your oval Peace medal an English Copy? Around 1960 or so, some hand-engraved silver copies were made by English silversmiths, ascopies. These are more difficult to distinguish.

3. Does your oval medal have a hallmark? Most, but not all, original medals include a silversmith hallmark. If yours has a hallmark, it is a good sign, but not a conclusive one. Most of the fakes do NOT have hallmarks (so far).

4. Did your Oval Medal come with a fancy banner, ribbon or trade beads? Modern sellers of fake/fantasy Indian Peacemedals often put them on genuinely old (ca. 1900-1940) banners or ribbons, or even on genuine ca. 1870 trade beads. Look at the MEDAL, not what it is attached to. However, please realize that MOST of the medals that are suspended from banners/ribbons/beads are modern fakes.

End result: If you believe you have a genuine oval Washington Indian Peace medal or any other hand-engraved Peace medal,you have a real prize and I am most interested in buying it and will pay AT LEAST $10,000 (mostly up!). Please also note that every single oval piece I've been sent has been a fake, and it is highly unlikely yours is an original! However, I keep hoping the next one will be genuine. Fake oval pieces are available in the $250-1000 range, retail.

If you want to SELL: You MUST have your pieceauthenticated NOBODY will pay top dollar for unauthenticated Indian Peace Medals. I no longer buy ANY silver Indian Peace Medal without authentication papers.

II. Round or oval medals, struck in the U.S. Mint. Genuine SILVER Indian Peace medals were struck from the same dies as those struck for collectors in copper. The copper/bronze collector strikes were made from about 1860 to about 1990, and...