Object Details
- depicted
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Description (Brief)
- This coin was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut during the 1930s. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer and is still in business today. Scovill was an early industrial American innovator, adapting armory manufacturing processes to mass-produce a variety of consumer goods including coins. These coins could be mailed to Cracker Jack to become a Mystery Club member.
- Obverse: Bust of Ulysses Grant facing left. Legend: 18th PRESIDENT, U.S.A./1869-1877/ULYSSES S. GRANT.
- Reverse: Legend: "THE AMERICAN CAESAR"/ "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER"/ JOIN CRACKER JACK MYSTERY CLUB SAVE THIS COIN/ THE CRACKER JACK CO., CHICAGO, U.S.A.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- ca 1930
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1261
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1261
- Object Name
- medal, political
- Physical Description
- aluminum (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.5 cm; in
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Waterbury
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Advertising
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1382255
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-072f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
