Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- The Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut produced this souvenir coin in 1965. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer and is still in business today. Scovill was an early industrial American innovator, adapting armory manufacturing processes to mass-produce a variety of consumer goods including buttons, daguerreotype mats, medals, and coins.
- Obverse: Bust of P.T. Barnum facing right.
- Reverse: Image of an eagle. The legend reads: The Annual Barnum Festival/ 1965/ BRIDGEPORT CONNECTICUT YANKEE COIN CLUB/ COIN-O-RAMA
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Barnum, P. T.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- date made
- 1965
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Physical Description
- white metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 cm; 1 9/16 in
- Object Name
- token
