1 Cent, New Jersey, Colonial America, 1786
date: label: date made
content: 1786
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) New Jersey copper coin
label: Description (Brief)
content: United States, 1786
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: Horse head above plow.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: NOVA CAESAREA / 1786
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: Shield.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: E PLURIBUS UNUM
label: Description
content: During the Revolutionary Period, American money often contained messages about unity. In the 1780s the new national motto, “E Pluribus Unum”—or “out of many, one”—began to appear on American coins.
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey
label: place of issue
content: United States: New Jersey
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
label: Exhibition
content: Value of Money
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Feingold, Ellen R.. Value of Money, The
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: NU.22243.0098
label: accession number
content: 22243
label: catalog number
content: 4985
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Coin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall metal)
label: Physical Description
content: 0 (overall die axis)
label: Physical Description
content: 0 (overall die axis measurement)
label: Physical Description
content: struck (overall production method)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .2 cm x 2.8 cm; 3/32 in x 1 3/32 in