Medal - First Coinage

Features

Location United States
Type Coin patterns › Mint token
Composition Gilding metal
Weight 20 g
Diameter 34 mm
Thickness 3 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
167498

Obverse

Portrait profile of George Washington.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
GEORGE WASHINGTON PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
1789

Reverse

Recreation of John Dunsmore’s 1914 oil painting, “Washington Inspecting the First Coins.”

Martha Washington with lorgnette in hand, sitting before a tray of silver coins held by Henry Voight. In the distinguished group around her are President Washington; his Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson; and Treasury Secretary and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton. Tobias Lear, private secretary to the President, watches David Rittenhouse, newly appointed Mint Director, offer a coin from the tray for the First Lady’s inspection. Adam Eckfeldt surveys the proceedings from his post at the coining press

Script: Latin

Lettering:
UNITED STATES MINT
PHILADELPHIA
1792-1971

Edge

Smooth

Mint

United States Mint of Philadelphia, United States (1792-date)

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