"Normally the soul of accuracy in cataloguing, New Netherlands missed the mark in the piece you quoted. Many original impressions of our National medals are indeed rare as stated. However, a third or more are common and modestly priced - e.g. John Eger Howard, William Washington, John Paul Jones - and another third are eminently collectable but more highly priced - e.g. Washington Before Boston and Libertas Americana.

In a similar vein, the statements about when the pieces were restruck and what the restrikes look like are very wide of the mark. We now know that some of the War of 1812 pieces were restruck beginning in the 1820's (not 1861) and we also know that we don't have a clue as to how to correlate color, finish and weight to date struck. This latter provides a magnificent opportunity for further study."