Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 1778
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 26r
Notes:
Leopold I was Holy Roman Emperor 1658-1705. The 1696 silver thaler pictured here was minted in Kremnitz (present-day Kremnica, Slovakia).
The donor was presumably a British soldier in Philadelphia during the occupation of 1777-1778.
