COMITIA AMERICANA MEDAL CENSUS Público Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 6, Number 39, September 28, 2003, Article 14
COMITIA AMERICANA MEDAL CENSUS
According to an item in the October 6, 2003 issue of
Coin World, the Massachusetts Historical Society is seeking
collector assistance "to establish a population count of gold,
silver, bronze and tin pieces for a series of 12 Comitia
Americana medals Congress awarded to Revolutionary
War heroes."Contact the society through curator Anne E. Bentley at
abentley at masshist.org. Email can also be addressed to
NBS Vice President John W. Adams at jadams at ahh.com.
John is also a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society.Coincidentally, the "Object of the Month" from the Society's
collections, as featured on their web site, is the John Paul
Jones Comitas Americana medal by Augustin Dupre, circa
1787 (the Paris Mint restrike). See
http://www.masshist.org/objects/- 2003-09-28
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