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The E-Sylum: Volume 27, Number 22, June 2, 2024, Article 8
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VIDEO: EARLY AMERICAN NUMISMATIC ICONOGRAPHY

The David Lisot Video Library on the Newman Numismatic Portal can be found at:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/multimediadetail/522852

We highlight one of his videos each week in The E-Sylum. Here's one from 2005 with Doug Mudd speaking about the political usage of imagery on Early American coinage. -Editor

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  Republican Sovereignty on Coinage Early America
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Image & Republican Sovereignty on Coinage

Use of imagery on coinage has been influenced by the concepts of society since the earliest of times. Learn some of what has driven the decisions that have been made including:

  • That George Washington did not want his image on any coinage
  • Coin designs offered by Ben Franklin Efforts to forge a national identity
  • Why individual States were allowed to strike their own coinage at first
  • The influence of classical Roman ideals Examples of French coinage that show the development of the concept of liberty on coin
  • The need to create an American coinage to replace the discredited Colonial and Revolutionary issues
  • Pattern coinage proposed by Robert Morris and why they were not accepted
  • Thomas Jefferson's proposal for a decimal based coinage system and a national mint
  • The debate over the law passed in 1792 defining US coinage

Speaker: Douglas Mudd. Publication date: August 20, 2005.

To watch the complete video, see:
Image & Republican Sovereignty on Coinage (https://youtu.be/tjvcnWm-a10)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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