Image: Bucks of America Medallion
Description: Silver planchet, 18th century 55 mm x 48 mm The Bucks of America, an all-Black company, seems to have operated in a military capacity in Boston during the American Revolution. No documentation definitively links them to any particular Revolutionary battle. Bucks of America medallion is an engraved, oval, silver, planchet, with the letters "MW", on the bottom, thirteen stars, for the 13 United States, above a leaping buck, and a shield, with three, fleur de lis flowers, the crest, of the last, French royal family, the Bourbons, as a symbol of the Franco-American, war alliance, made in honor and recognition of the All Black Patriot, militia company
Title: Bucks of America Medallion
Credit: Massachusetts Historical Society Collection
Author: Massachusetts Governor John George Washington Hancock and citizens of Boston
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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