Dollar - Nassau Water Works Brooklyn, NY

Features

Location United States
Type Commemorative medals › Event medal
Year 1859
Currency United States - So-called Dollars
Composition Bronze
Diameter 33 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Number
N#
123139
References HK# 589a
Harold E. Hibler, Charles V. Kappen ; 2008. So-Called Dollars : an Illustrated Standard Catalog with Valuations (2nd edition). Coin & Currency Institute, Clifton, New Jersey, United States.

Obverse

Neptune seated, facing to left

Script: Latin

Lettering: right hand working lever, left arm around pipe from which water gushes; below, on base, microscopic F.B.S. & H.; below, Commcd. July / 1856; above, around, Nassau Water Works

Reverse

Edifice with tall smokestack; on edifice base

Script: Latin

Lettering: microscopic F.B. Smith & Hartmann; above, around, Water Introduced in the City of Brooklyn / December 1858; below edifice, Celebrated April / 1859

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1859  R6

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