Plain with inscriptions Script: Latin Lettering: MEDALLIC ART CO.N.Y. BRONZE 2443
Period
Notice
Reference(s)
Obverse description
Ribbon wrapping around a large Tercentenary symbol in the center. Tractor, barn, and silo to the left of it. Factory and smokestacks beside of a train on railroad tracks to the right.
Obverse lettering
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
PURPOSE
PEOPLE PROGRESS
1964
ANTHONY
NOTARO
TERCENTENARY
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
Totems of New Jersey`s three Lenni Lanape Indian sub-tribes that form a stylized totem pole. The wild turkey of the Unalachtigo at the top, the wolf of the Minsi in the middle, and the turtle of the Unami at the bottom. At the base of the totem are a Cavalier facing right with the seal of the Eastern Division of New Jersey at his feet and a Quaker facing left with the seal of the Council of Proprietors, Western Division at his feet. Along the rim are 21 icons separated by 21 small Tercentenary icons, each representing a county in New Jersey. These figures include a purple violet, a leaf from a red oak tree, eastern Goldfinch, light bulb, vase, lighthouse, crossbar and football, the Princeton and Rutgers seals, the State House dome, an atom, steamboat and sailboat at sea, striped bass, diver, transistor, suspension bridge, cow, rooster, jet airliner, church, and beaker and test tube.
Reverse lettering
NOVA
1664
CAESAREA
Reverse script
Latin
Engraver
Medallic Art Company, New York City, United States (1903-1972)
