Medal for the Centennial Anniversary of the Birth Day of George Washington

1832

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 16 g, 12:00, 32 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Walter M. Jeffords, B.A. 1905
Accession Number: 1951.8.1
Geography: Made in United States
Culture: American
Period: 19th century
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Eagle with rays above holding framed profile head of Washington r.; PATRIAE - PATER on ruffed ribbons below.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: STRUCK / & DISTRIBUTED IN / CIVIC PROCESSION / FEBRY 22ND 1832 / THE CENTENNIAL / ANNIVERSARY OF THE / BIRTHDAY OF / WASHINGTON / BY THE GOLD & SILVER / ARTICIFERS OF / PHILAD. within rope border.

Provenance

Walter M. Jeffords, to 1951; 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), 125, no. 66, ill

Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery, 2 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), vol. 2, p. 270, no. 1020

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

medals

Inscriptions

no marks

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