* NOVA * EBORACA * COLUMBIA */ EXCELSIOR; below waterlines, BRASHER: Within beaded inner circle, radiant sun rising atop mountain, with sea in foreground.
Reverse
* UNUM * E * PLURIBUS */ 1787: Within circular wreath, heraldic eagle displayed facing, head l., with shield of union on breast, holding olive spray in r. talon and arrows in l.; to l. and r. of eagle's head, 13 stars displayed 7 on l. and 6 on r.
Diameter (in mm)
30.65
Weight (in gr.)
26.311
Reference
Breen 981.5, Friedberg USA.13, Whitman 5840
Provenance
Mrs. R. Henry Norweb New Netherlands Coin Co. sale Boyd estate F. C. C. Boyd Burdette G. Johnson sale William Randolph Hearst Col. E. H. R. Green Waldo Newcomer A. W. Jackman S. H. and Henry Chapman sale
