Medal
date: label: date made
content: 1830
notes: label: Description
content: The obverse of this medal has a portrait bust to right and “DAVID HOSACK M.D.” The reverse has “ARTS AND SCIENCES” and images of objects pertaining thereto. David Hosack (1769-1835) was an American physician and naturalist. The “FŰRST . F” on both sides refers to Moritz Fürst (b. 1782), a Jewish artist from Slovakia who arrived in the United States in 1807. This medal was struck at U.S. Mint in 1830, and could be had in different metals.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mendel L. Peterson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09689
label: catalog number
content: M-09689
label: accession number
content: 234835
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Medal
label: Object Name
content: award, medal
label: Other Terms
content: Medal; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/8 in x 3 3/8 in; .3175 cm x 8.5725 cm