Coin from United States of America Designer: John Trumbull (American, 1756–1843)
Engraver: Conrad Heinrich Kuchler (1740–1810)
Manufacturer: Boulton and Watt (British, 1775–1896)

1796

Numismatics

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

Medium

Copper

Dimensions

46 g, 12:00, 48 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Bequest of the Charles Wyllys Betts, B.A. 1867, M.A. 1871, Collection

Accession Number

2001.87.3433

Geography

Designed in United States, Manufactured in Birmingham, England

Culture

American, British

Period

18th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: U.S.A in exergue. A landscape. In the foreground a man sowing grain, and in the distance a farm-house, and a man ploughing. KUCHLER at left base.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: SECOND / PRESIDENCY / OF / GEO: WASHINGTON / MDCCXCVI in five parallel lines, within a wreath of olive and oak branches tied by a bow.
Provenance
Charles Wyllys Betts, to about 1887; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., from about 1887 to 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), 51–52, no. 19, ill.
  • William S. Baker, Medallic Portraits of Washington, 2nd (Philadelphia: Robert M. Lindsay, 1885), 84, no. 171.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

money

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