Jenny Lind Token ND about 1850 USA, reverse
Bronze medallion, d.= 22 mm.
This token was probably issued for Jenny's tour of America, 1850 – 1852. It shows her year of birth 1821 in contrary to 1820 in the Oxford University Press. Carole Rosen, ‘Lind , Jenny (1820–1887)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 10 June 2014. This contradiction needs more research to be done.
Portrait facing, curved above: "JENNY LIND"/ Lyre between branches, around: "NESCIT OCASUM NATA 1821". Fuld/Rulau Jenn-11 .
Medallists:
(John) Allen & (Joseph) Moore, 1817 Birmingham - 1901 Birmingham, England.
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