Coin bank

Museum number:
3-32126
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Alternate number:
TEMP 2016.0081 (associated catalog number)
Accession number:
Acc.4799
Description:
Polychromed and overglazed ceramic coin bank with a sun-like face flanked by two men. Below them two ghostly faces look out of two openings in the base.
Donor:
Julius Stephen Kassovic
Collection place:
Ocumicho, Michoacan, Mexico
Culture or time period:
Mexican
Collector:
Julius Stephen Kassovic
Collection date:
ca. 1970
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Banks (coin containers)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions and 7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Accession date:
May 11, 2016
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Coin bank, accession number 3-32126, described as Polychromed and overglazed ceramic coin bank with a sun-like face flanked by two men. Below them two ghostly faces look out of two openings in the base.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Coin bank, accession number 3-32126, described as Polychromed and overglazed ceramic coin bank with a sun-like face flanked by two men. Below them two ghostly faces look out of two openings in the base.

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