Civil War Token - Custer Third Cavalry Battle of Cedar Creek
Civil War Token - Custer Third Cavalry Battle of Cedar Creek
€121,945.00
Location
United
States
Year
1864
Type
Tokens
Composition
Silver plated brass
Weight
Diameter
35 mm
Thickness
Shape
Round
Technique
Milled
Orientation
Edge
Period
Reference(s)
Obverse description
Detailed and realist portrait of a uniformed, mustachioed, and longhaired George Armstrong Custer, facing two-thirds left, within an olive branch
Obverse lettering
COSTER`S 3 3 CAV. DIV.
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
13 Line Inscription
Reverse lettering
THE
HISTORY OF THIS WAR WHEN TRUTHFULLY WRITTEN, WILL CONTAIN NO
BRIGHTER PAGE THAN THAT UPON WHICH IS RECORDED, THE CHIVALROUS
DEEDS, THE GLORIOUS TRIUMPHS OF THE SOLDIERS OF THE THIRD DIVISION
CEDAR CREEK 19 OCT. 1864. G.A. CUSTER.
