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Coin: Provincetown

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Collection Type

  • Relics and Souvenirs

Date

undated

Location Note

Box 6

GUSN

GUSN-294384

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Description

A commemorative coin with an image of a scroll with the words "Compact, Nov. 11, 1620, Birthplace of American Liberty" written on it above the inscription "Precinct of Cape Cod, 1714" all surrounded by the words "Town of Provincetown, Incorporated 1727" on one side and a map of Cape Cod with an image of a ship on the Cape Cod Canal superimposed above and the words "July - 1934" below all surrounded by the words "U. S. Fleet Recaptures the Birthplace of Liberty" on the other.

Details

Descriptive Terms

canals
ships
memorabilia
scrolls (information artifacts)
coins (money)

Physical Description

1 commemorative coin

Collection Code

MS028

Collection Name

Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

Reference Code

MS028.03.130

Places

Cape Cod Canal (Massachusetts) [canal]
Cape Cod (Barnstable county, Massachusetts) [peninsula]
Provincetown (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

coins (money)

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Box 6

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