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Rosa Americana
Designer: William Wood (English, 1769–1810)
British Royal Patent Issue
1733
Object Place: Various, England for the American Colonies
Medium/Technique
Copper or bronze?
Dimensions
Diameter and weight: 32.8 mm, 18.62 gm (1 5/16 in., 0.65 oz.)
Credit Line
Augustine Shurtleff Collection of Coins
Accession Number01.127
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ClassificationsNumismatics – Coins
Catalogue Raisonné
Breen 106 (copy?)
DescriptionThis could be a cast copy of a very rare pattern piece with few examples known.
Obv: GEORGIVS· II · D · G · REX· around a portrait bust of George II facing left
Rev: ROSA·AMER ICANA·1733· around a crowned rose with with two branches on the stalk, one with four leaves at left and one with three leaves and a bud to the right UTILE DULCI· on a ribbon at bottom
Edge: plain edge which appears to have a thin white line around its perimeter
Obv: GEORGIVS· II · D · G · REX· around a portrait bust of George II facing left
Rev: ROSA·AMER ICANA·1733· around a crowned rose with with two branches on the stalk, one with four leaves at left and one with three leaves and a bud to the right UTILE DULCI· on a ribbon at bottom
Edge: plain edge which appears to have a thin white line around its perimeter