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The medal was made at Washington and of silver, to the value of Twenty Dollars. One side was thus inscribed: Presented to George Gist by the General Council of the Cherokee Nation, for his ingenuity in The Invention of the Cherokee Alphabet: 1825. Under the inscription were two pipes crossed; and an abridgement of the above on the reverse of the medal, encircled a head meant to represent George Gist himself. Gist still