25 Cents from Philadelphia Yale University Art Gallery

1917

Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 17.47 g, 6:00, 32 mm
Credit Line: Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001
Accession Number: 2001.87.1790
Geography: Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatic details

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: LIBERTY inwardly 11:00-1:00, IN GOD - WE TRUST on architrave of wall in whose opening stands a figure of Liberty draped to feet, r. breast bare, shield on l. shoulder, holding olive branch in r. hand resting on wall. On exergual platform, date.

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: UNITED STATES inwardly 11:00-1:00, OF AMERICA across upper field; below, in smaller characters, E PLURIBUS / UNUM. QUARTER DOLLAR outwardly 5:00-7:00. Eagle flying r. Between enclosing legends, 7 and 6 stars l. and r. respectively.

Provenance

Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1968–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Walter H. Breen, Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1988), no. 6841

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

coins, money

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