Navigator Henry Hudson on deck of ship Halve Maene.
Obverse lettering
DISCOVERY OF / HUDSON RIVER BY / HENRY
HUDSON / A . D . MDCIX / THE AMERICAN // NUMISMATIC SOCIETY /
HUDSON.FULTON // CELEBRATION COMMs
HALVE / MAENE
E. FUCHS
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
Seated figures of Navigation, Invention and History with model of Robert Fulton`s North River Steamboat under Fulton bust.
Reverse lettering
ROBERT FULTON // 1765 1815
E. FUCHS
FIRST USE OF STEAM IN NAVIGATION // ON THE HUDSON RIVER //
1807
Reverse script
Latin
Engraver
Whitehead & Hoag, Newark, United States (1892-1965)
