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New Jersey Copper

Designed and engraved by: Walter Mould (American)
After: George Wyon III (English, 1744–1797)
and: Thomas Wyon (English, born in 1767)
American Confederation Period
1788
Mint: Walter Mould's Mint, Morristown, New Jersey, United States

Medium/Technique Copper
Dimensions Diameter and weight: 28.5 mm, 8.72 gm (1 1/8 in., 0.31 oz.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Rosamond Lamb
Accession Number64.89
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CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Breen 949?
DescriptionObv: (ornament?) NOVA (ornament?) CAESAREA (ornament?) around a horse's head facing right with a plow below and the date 1788 at the bottom (the obverse is too worn to identify the ornaments or the border)
Rev: * E * PLURIBUS * UNUM * around a shield with two small leaves below, the whole surrounded by a plain rim
Edge: plain