File:Bucks of America Medallion.jpg
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DescriptionBucks of America Medallion.jpg |
English: Silver planchet, 18th century
55 mm x 48 mm The Bucks of America, an all-Black company, seems to have operated in a military capacity in Boston during the American Revolution. No documentation definitively links them to any particular Revolutionary battle. Bucks of America medallion is an engraved, oval, silver, planchet, with the letters "MW", on the bottom, thirteen stars, for the 13 United States, above a leaping buck, and a shield, with three, fleur de lis flowers, the crest, of the last, French royal family, the Bourbons, as a symbol of the Franco-American, war alliance, made in honor and recognition of the All Black Patriot, militia company |
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18th century date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7 |
Source | Massachusetts Historical Society Collection |
Author | Massachusetts Governor John George Washington Hancock and citizens of Boston |
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