Medal Commemorating Washington and Franklin on the occasion of the Peace of 1783 Engraver: Johann Matthias Reich (American, born Germany, 1768–1833)
Designer: Joseph Sansom (American, 1767–1826)
Manufacturer: John Conrad & Co.
Mint: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
Honorand: Benjamin Franklin, American, 1706–1790, M.A. (Hon.) 1753
Honorand: George Washington, American, 1732–1799, LL.D. 1781

1805

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

35.45 g, 12:00, 41 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001

Accession Number

2001.87.2730

Geography

Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Jugate busts of Franklin and, in foreground, Washington in uniform, facing l.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: UNITED STATES on globe on which alights an eagle carrying a thunderbolt and an olive branch; above, 1783.
Provenance
Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., by 2001; transferred to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2001
Bibliography
  • William S. Baker, Medallic Portraits of Washington, 2nd (Philadelphia: Robert M. Lindsay, 1885), 38, no. 58
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

medals

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