Token, Commemorative
- Object Name:
- Token, Commemorative
- Object ID:
- 2003.034
- Date:
- 1863-1864
- Description:
- Franklin Pierce brass token. Obverse: Profile of Pierce with raised lettering above and below "14TH PRESIDENT, U.S.A. / 1853 / 1857 / FRANKLIN PIERCE". Reverse: Raised lettering "POOR PIERCE / CONGRESSMAN / UNITED STATES / SENATOR / BRIGADIER GENERAL / IN MEXICAN WAR / GREATER SOLDIER / THAN STATESMAN / FAVORED SLAVERY / UNTIL OUTBREAK / OF CIVIL / WAR / FIRES OF CIVIL WAR LIGHTED".
- Material:
- Metal
- Dimensions:
- Dia-1 inches
- Provenance:
- Found circa 1980 by Lelia W. Gordon while raking leaves at her house in Graham, NC. Given to the donor by Ms. Gordon in November, 1982.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Sara M. Townsend
- People:
- Pierce, Franklin (1804-1869)
- Subjects:
- Civil War, Coins, Congressmen (U.S.), Generals, Presidents, Senators (U.S.), Slavery
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