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Confederatio Copper Decad (copy)

Engraved by: John Adams Bolen (American, 1826–1906)
After: Thomas Wyon (English, born in 1767)
dated 1785, struck 1863

Medium/Technique Copper
Dimensions Diameter and weight: 28 mm, 7.91 gm (1 1/8 in., 0.28 oz.)
Credit Line The Sidney A. and Ellen M. Wien Collection—Given in their memory by Claire W. and Richard P. Morse
Accession Number2004.1157
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CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Bolen restrike Obv. 3 / Rev. D
DescriptionObv: INIMICA TYRANNIS [with a dot inside the Y] / · AMERICANA · around the Goddess Diana beside an altar and trampling a crown, on the altar is a small Liberty cap. the whole surrounded by a faintly textured rim
Rev: CONFEDERATIO / · 1785 · around thirteen stars arranged in a cruciform pattern and surrounded by a circle of rays, the whole surrounded by a faintly textured rim
Edge: plain
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.