The early coins of America and the laws governing their issue : comprising also descriptions of the Washington pieces, the Anglo-American tokens, many pieces of unknown origin, of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the first patterns of the United States Mint (1875)
Crosby, Sylvester S. (Sylvester Sage), d. 1914 · Boston : The author · leaf 385
erestruck were usually so small as to leave but very little sjiace outside of thelegend, in consequence of which the impression of the borders is very seldomto be seen. The legend on the reverse proves this to be an English token. LIBERTY AND SECURITY. Whether the three pieces bearing the above… … obverse no. 1.Device, — A bust of Washington, in military costume, facing the left,with hair tied in a cpieue. Legend, — george Washington. 360 THE EAKLT COrNS OF AMERICA. REVERSE A. Device, — A shield, argent, seven pales gules, impaling argent, fifteenmullets, five, four, three, two, one. Above…
Coins, American · Tokens
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