Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
April 1782
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 65v
Notes:
Pictured here is a silver shilling (1582-1600) minted during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603).
The donor was Benjamin Duffield, (1753–1799), the son of Philadelphia clock- and watchmaker Edward Duffield. He graduated from the College of Philadelphia (1771); completed medical courses there (1774), and went to Edinburgh to finish his training. He was a founding member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
