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Some Copper Coins from East Indies

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

January 25, 1806

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 11

Notes:

Miers Fisher, Jr. (1786-1813), a Visitor of the Peale Museum, was a Philadelphia merchant who was in business in Russia 1809-1813. He married a Russian woman, Helen Grigorofsky, and died within days of the wedding. Nina N. Bashkina, David F. Trask, et al., eds., The United States and Russia: The beginning of relations, 1765-1815 (Washington, D.C., 1980).