Coin: cupronickel 5 cent

Museum number:
2-30881
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020030881
Accession number:
Acc.1760
Description:
Liberty Head nickel (V nickel), 1901, minted in Philadelphia. Burnt in San Francisco fire, 1906; large droplets of melted metal adhere to surface, along with a white substance.
Donor:
Joseph A. Jadin
Collection place:
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
Burnt in San Francisco fire of 1906
Production place:
Philadelphia Mint, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Maker or artist:
Charles E. Barber
Collection date:
1906
Materials:
Cupro-nickel
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coins (money) and Five-cent pieces
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
1901
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Nonnative California (archaeology and ethnology)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coin: cupronickel 5 cent, accession number 2-30881, described as Liberty Head nickel (V nickel), 1901, minted in Philadelphia. Burnt in San Francisco fire, 1906; large droplets of melted metal adhere to surface, along with a white substance.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coin: cupronickel 5 cent, accession number 2-30881, described as Liberty Head nickel (V nickel), 1901, minted in Philadelphia. Burnt in San Francisco fire, 1906; large droplets of melted metal adhere to surface, along with a white substance.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coin: cupronickel 5 cent, accession number 2-30881, described as Liberty Head nickel (V nickel), 1901, minted in Philadelphia. Burnt in San Francisco fire, 1906; large droplets of melted metal adhere to surface, along with a white substance.

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