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Small round silver medal with a deep red satin ribbon attached. The medal has an eagle holding an olive branch and three arrows in either foot below a building with many columns. On the back is wrtiing.
medals
ribbon (material)
metal
Medal, Commemorative
"VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN" (Arched around bottom half of front of medal)
"AWARDED / BY / THE U.S. TREASURY / DEPARTMENT / FOR / PATRIOTIC SERVICE / IN BEHALF OF THE / LIBERTY LOANS / MADE FROM CAPTURED GERMAN CANNON" (Listed and rounded around the shape of the medal)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
3/8 (W), 1 1/8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.2724
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