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Auction: 26776 - America 250th Anniversary Sale Ft. Coins, Medals, Banknotes, Objets de Vertu & Ephemera
Lot: 66

(x) Commanders-in-Chief, ANDREW JACKSON, 7th President of the United States (March 4, 1829 - March 4, 1837), Second Term, AR Medalet, 1833, unsigned, bare head left, rev. U.S. | SECOND TERM | MAR . IV . 1833 | legend around, 18mm (Julian PR-33), toned, extremely fine; with, his signature "Andrew Jackson" on Bank of the Metropolis cheque, dated 2 December 1835, issued to J. Bolonger, sum of $1,003.18, mounted in frame, 395mm x 395mm

Not inspected outside of the frame. Sold as is.

Provenance

Presented to His Royal Highness Prince Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud, Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States (1983-2005), by James Addison Baker III, 67th Secretary of the Treasury and 10th White House Chief of Staff to President Ronald Reagan.

James Addison Baker III also served as 16th White House Chief of Staff and 61st Secretary of State to President George H. W. Bush.



Orphaned by the Revolution and self-made in the frontier courts of Tennessee, Jackson entered the public memory first as a soldier: his rout of the British at New Orleans in 1815, won with a scratch force of regulars, militiamen, and privateers, made him the most celebrated American of his generation. That renown was denied its political reward in the disputed election of 1824, then vindicated four years later in a campaign of remarkable rancor, and Jackson took office as the self-appointed tribune of the ordinary white citizen against the constituted interests of bank and bureau.



His presidency proceeded by collision. He broke the Second Bank of the United States as a hydra of privilege; he faced down South Carolina's threat of nullification with a firmness that startled fellow Southerners; and, under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, he presided over the expulsion of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole from their ancestral lands: a policy pursued in defiance of the Supreme Court and consummated, shortly after he left Washington, in the Trail of Tears.



He was the first President to survive an assassination attempt - spared by misfiring pistols in 1835 - only to retire three years later to the Hermitage, leaving behind a Democratic Party built substantially in his own combative image. Few American presidents have been so revered as a "democrat" and so condemned as a "destroyer"; in Jackson the two verdicts do not so much coexist as contend, unresolved, to this day.

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Estimate
$1,500 to $1,800

Starting price
$1000