Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Requires Photography

North American Token

Designed and engraved by: William Mossop Jr. (Irish, 1788–1827)
Early American (1700–1832)
dated 1781, struck about 1810–20

Medium/Technique Copper
Dimensions Diameter and weight: 28 mm, 7.12 gm (1 1/8 in., 0.25 oz.)
Credit Line The Sidney A. and Ellen M. Wien Collection—Given in their memory by Claire W. and Richard P. Morse
Accession Number2004.1148
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Americas
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Breen 1144, Breton 1013
ProvenanceCollected by Sidney A. Wien (1902-1962), Atlanta, Georgia, between the mid-1940's and 1962; by descent to his daughter, Claire W. Morse, in 1962; to the MFA in November 2004, gift of Claire W. and Richard P. Morse.