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The E-Sylum: Volume 14, Number 25, June 19, 2011, Article 8

MORE ON THE ANS' UTE CHIEF'S LIFE-SAVING LINCOLN PEACE MEDAL

Back in August 2006, Dan Friedus introduced us to an unusual medal in the American Numismatic Society collection. -Editor

Dan wrote:

"It's not quite a "life-saving coin" but there's a medal with an interesting story. The ANS owns a silver Lincoln peace medal which was supposedly worn by a Ute chief when he was shot. Rather than seeing the medal as the reason for his survival, he saw it as being responsible for his being shot. The ANS has owned the medal since 1917, a gift from J. Sanford Saltus.

Web site visitor Dave Lanara wrote:

I discovered the E-Sylum story on the American Numismatic Society's Lincoln peace medal with the Indian/bullet and was stunned beyond belief. The reason is that I have been searching for this medal for over twenty years. It was part of a huge number of artifacts that belonged to a Denver businessman who wrote an account of his acquisition of the medal in the 1870s.

Dave wrote back recently:

I have found a photo of chief Honko wearing the Lincoln medal. The right image was a photo owned by J.P. Lower of Honko, left standing image was recently found in a catalog marked unknown Indian, but it is clearly the same man. The standing photo shows Honko wearing the medal! He was known for his long, thick war braids. This photo must have been taken before his decision to sell the medal.

Chief Honko

Thanks! -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see: HEAP BAD MEDICINE: UTE CHIEF'S LIFE-SAVING LINCOLN PEACE MEDAL (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v09n33a28.html)
MORE ON THE ANS' UTE CHIEF'S LIFE-SAVING LINCOLN PEACE MEDAL (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v10n16a21.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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