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George Washington Medal
1792
The peace medals produced for George Washington's administration (1789-1797) were engraved, by hand, on oval sheets of silver, because the United States did not yet have the technology to make medals of this size in a mint.
On the front of the medal, President Washington is speaking with an American Indian, who has dropped his tomahawk and is smoking the pipe of peace. On the reverse is an American eagle with a shield; olive branches and arrows are in its talons, and a ribbon with the motto "E Pluribus Unum" is in its beak. This Latin phrase translates to "From Many, One." |