Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 18, 1807
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 23
Additional Source Text:
The donor was from Burlington, probably New Jersey.
Notes:
The coins probably came from Cueta, a Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa opposite Gibraltar.
The donor was possibly a relative of John Smith, of Burlington, N. J., a donor of coins to Du Simitiere's Museum. See Joel J. Orosz, The Eagle That Is Forgotten (Wolfeboro, N.H., 1988), pp. 15-19.
