Abraham Lincoln Presidential Campaign Medal Designer: William Leggett Bramhall (American, 1839–1902)
Manufacturer: Scovill Manufacturing Company (American, incorporated 1850)

1860

Numismatics

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900
Medium

Brass

Dimensions

5.95 g, 12:00, 24 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Irving Dillaye-Vann, B.A. 1897

Accession Number

2001.87.3460

Geography

Made in United States

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Numismatics

Disclaimer

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: SUCCESS TO REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES around eagle facing left with striped shield on breast and olive branch and arrows in talons. Dentilled rim.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: MILLIONS FOR FREEDOM around NOT / ONE / CENT / * / FOR SLAVERY below crossed laurels. 1860 at bottom.
Provenance
Irving Dillaye-Van, to about 1938; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1938–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Helen A. Cooper et al., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008), 145–46, no. 84, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

medals

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