Image Information
| Type | Medal |
| Title | Captain William Lewis Herndon, from Virginia |
| Date | 1858 |
| Country | United States |
| Side | obverse |
| Composition | silver |
| Diameter | 59 mm |
| Weight | 78.7 gm |
| Description | Alan V. Weinberg comments: One of two known in silver, this is the finest & pedigrees to Garrett/JHU in 1981. Bronze specimens do exist and are very rare- perhaps 10 bronzes known. The obverse is extremely high relief and doesn't lay flat. |
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| Image Collection | Alan V. Weinberg Collection (Lifesaving Medals) |