Coin: silver 25 cent

Museum number:
2-34519
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020034519
Accession number:
Acc.892
Description:
Seated liberty quarter dollar, 1862, minted in San Francisco. Obverse: ************* date - Liberty seated. Reverse: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / QUAR. DOLL. / - eagle, wings spread, shield on breast, olive branch and arrows clutched in talons
Donor:
Doe Library (UC Berkeley) and University of California Library
Collection place:
San Francisco Mint, San Francisco, San Francisco County
Production place:
San Francisco Mint, San Francisco, San Francisco County
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Materials:
Silver (metal)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coins (money) and Quarter dollars
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
1862
Accession date:
1946
Department:
Nonnative California (archaeology and ethnology)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Coin: silver 25 cent, accession number 2-34519, described as Seated liberty quarter dollar, 1862, minted in San Francisco. Obverse: ************* date - Liberty seated. Reverse: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / QUAR. DOLL. / - eagle, wings spread, shield on breast, olive branch and arrows clutched in talons

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