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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Facsimile Signatures
WRIGHT, Charles Cushing: USA, ca.1880, Bronze, 91 mm
Obv: John Trumbull's Painting Declaration of Independence
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE JULY 4TH, 1776
Rev: Facsimile signatures of all 56 signatories of the Declaration of
Independence. These include (in script, listed here with complete names in order by state):
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew
Thornton, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine,
Elbridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Roger Sherman, Samuel
Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, William Floyd, Philip
Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon,
Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush,
Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor,
James Wilson, George Ross, Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean, Samuel
Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, George
Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas
Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, William Hooper, Joseph
Hewes, John Penn, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr.,
Arthur Middleton, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton.
Signed: C.C. WRIGHT. FECIT
Copper electrotype. This rare medal is not known in any other than
electrotype form, which were issued by Samuel H. Black. According to Jaeger and Bowers, only two specimens are
known to exist.
Ref: Obverse is the same as Baker 53F, but this medal is unlisted in
Baker; see Jaeger and Bowers, p. 77; Musante
CCW-82; Musante GW-184; Weiss BW382
LINK to
Image
of Declaration of Independence (from Wikipedia)
LINK to
Text of
Declaration of Independence (from Indiana University School of Law)
LINK to
Biographies
of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (from ushistory.org)
LINK to
John
Trumbull's Painting, Declaration of Independence (from Wikipedia)
LINK to the
American
Revolution (from The History Place)
LINK to
Medallic History of Slavery:
Racial Oppression as Chronicled by Historical and Commemorative Medals (by
Benjamin Weiss)
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