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1803: Joseph Comporo

Object number: 2008.0039.0016

1803: Joseph Comporo

Object number: 2008.0039.0016

Diameter: 36mm, thickness: 3mm

Front:

Token engraved with a man with a hat, wearing chains and holding a pipe and standing between a wall and a wheelbarrow. Around the border are the words:

HOW HARD IS MY FATE & HOW GALLING IS MY CHAIN

Back:

Token engraved with an image of a three-masted ship on the sea. Around the border (clockwise from top) are the words:

R . A . HULK . JOSEPH COMPORO . LAGD . AUGst 8th 1803

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