Carolina Elephant Token | Yale University Art Gallery

1694

Medium: Copper
Dimensions: 9.03 g, 12:00, 28.40 mm
Credit Line: Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001
Accession Number: 2001.87.26198
Geography: Made in United States
Culture: American
Period: 17th century
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Elephant with tusks walking l.

Reverse Description: GOD PRESERVE CAROLINA AND THE LORDS PROPRIETOR 1694

Provenance

Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., by 2001; transferred to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2001

Bibliography

Walter H. Breen, Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1988), no. 193

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