Coin Bank
- Description
- Bank in the form of a standing pig, cast in two halves from head to tail and held together by a flathead screw through the sides of its belly; coin slot at rump. Contains 15 coins (10 copper pennies from 1909, 1916, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1938, 1940 and 1942; four 1943 white metal pennies; and one 1941 nickel). No marks.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1900
- place made
- United States
- Physical Description
- iron, cast (overall material)
- copper (pennies material)
- steel, zinc-coated (1943 pennies material)
- nickel (nickel material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 in x 6 1/4 in x 2 7/8 in; 5.08 cm x 15.875 cm x 7.3025 cm
- ID Number
- 1978.0939.020
- accession number
- 1978.0939
- catalog number
- 1978.0939.020
- Credit Line
- Gift of John Paul Remensnyder
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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