Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
October 1782
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. ,67r
Additional Source Text:
"Having on one Side the imperial eagle of Russia holding the globe and Scepter and a label underneath with the words [cyrillic text] and on the reverse the cypher of the Emperor Peter III with the date 1758."
Notes:
This coin was a 5-kopeck copper coin minted during the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna (1709-1762; reigned as Empress of Russia 1741-1762)..
The donor, Lewis Weiss (1717-1796), a native of Germany, was a prominent Philadelphia Moravian who was an Arch Street neighbor of Du Simitière. See "Lewis Weiss, of Philadelphia, Conveyancer, Lawyer, and Judge," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 15, no. 3 (1891): 361-365
