Object Details
- Wyon III, George
- obverse engraver
- Wyon III, George
- reverse engraver
- Wyon III, George
- Description
- Produced at George Wyon's private mint, Birmingham, England. Obverse: Seated figure of Columbia with scales of justice and a Liberty cap, date below. Reverse: All-seeing Eye in a glory with stars, CONSTELLATIO NOVA around. This pattern accompanied a proposed contract coinage to be made in England and shipped to America. This version never went any farther, perhaps in part because the obverse die for this pattern contained a major blunder: the first word should have been IMMUNIS, not IMMUNE. A few pieces were struck in copper, and this one (using an English guinea as a blank) in gold. Such contract proposals continued through the early 1790s, but they never bore fruit. Congress concluded that it was simply too dangerous to entrust producing America's money to a foreign source.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, United States Mint
- 1785
- ID Number
- 1988.0063.0060
- catalog number
- 1988.0063.0060
- accession number
- 1988.0063
- Object Name
- coin
- Physical Description
- gold (overall metal)
- 0 (overall die axis)
- 0 (overall die axis measurement)
- struck (overall production method)
- Measurements
- overall: .3 cm x 2.6 cm; 1/8 in x 1 1/32 in
- place of issue
- United States: New York
- Related Publication
- Glossary of Coins and Currency Terms
- Related Web Publication
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/coins/glossary.cfm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
- Coins, Currency and Medals
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1094990
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-cde7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
