Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 6, 1808
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 34
Additional Source Text:
"A Mr. Law, informs us that the Coin which was supposed to have been found in the western country, at a considerable debth, was thrown in the well, perhaps whilst the workmen were at their dinners, by a Judge Turner, who was in that neighborhood by way of divertion."
Notes:
This coin was minted in Calcutta in 1776-1777 by the East India Company during the reign of mughal emperor Shah Alum II (reigned 1760-1788, 1788-1806).
Judge Turner may have been George Turner (ca. 1750-1843), a native of England who was a South Carolina officer in the Revolution who moved to Philadelphia after the war and was a territorial judge in the Northwest Territory from 1789 until his resignation in 1797.
