Birch Cent, United States, Pattern, 1792
date: label: date made
content: 1792
notes: label: Description
content: United States Mint, Philadelphia. Obverse: Head of Liberty with flowing hair facing right, date below. Reverse: Denomination in wreath, fraction (1/100) below. This design has been traditionally ascribed to a British artist named William Russell Birch. Patterns with these designs were struck towards the end of 1792. By the time the cent entered formal production, however, its weight and size had been reduced, and another artist was brought in to design the coin.
label: Description
content: [reference no. Judd 4]
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: Associated Place
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
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content: Coins, Currency and Medals
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Glossary of Coins and Currency Terms
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://americanhistory.si.edu/coins/glossary.cfm
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Stack's
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0532.0001
label: accession number
content: 1993.0532
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0532.0001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 mm x 32.5 mm; 31/32 in x 1 9/32 in