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Coin: copper alloy cent
Museum number:
2-34118
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020034118
Alternate number:
7-2840
Accession number:
Acc.908
Description:
Canadian one cent piece, 1871, minted in Birmingham. Obverse: VICTORIA QUEEN * date * - head, facing left. Reverse: PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND / * ONE CENT */ - small tree at left, large tree at right. 5.43 grms.
Donor:
Mary W. Knight
Collection place:
Prince Edward Island, Canada
Production place:
Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Culture or time period:
Canadian Historic
Collector:
H. M. Holbrook
Collection date:
1888
Materials:
Copper (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coins (money)
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
1871
Accession date:
1947
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Legacy documentation: