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Windsor Bicentennial Medallion, Bronze
1976 (Date manufactured/created)
Bronze Bicentennial Medallion Coin featuring Windsor's Bicentennial Logo on the Obverse and Windsor's Town Seal on the reverse.
From an official desccription included with the gift: Coins made after this casting were the official souvenir of the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Windsor. It is an art medal of high relief one and one half inches in diamter iand is minted by the Medallic Art Company of Danbury, Connecticut.
The logo of the Bicentennial Commission appears on the overse side. It depicts a Windsor Revolutionary Citizen leaving his plow and oxen to answer the call to battle. His typical farmhouse is pictured in the background.
The artis, Barbara Van Winkelen of WIndsor is a direct descendant of General Israel Putnam, Commander of the Connecticut troops who also left his plow to respond to the call of Lexington and Concord. A graduate of Yale University School of Fine Arts, she is presently President of the WIndsor Palette and Brush Club.
On the reverse side is the WIndsor Town Seal designed by an unknown artis many years ago. It is a primitive design of the Palisade and Indian Tepees as they might have appeared. A Colonist and an Indian are shown bartering. A canoe is at the River's edge close by. Also visible in the River is a two masted schooner.
Above this is the clinging grapevine, one of the three appearing ont eh Seal of the State of Connectictut, which represents the first three colonies of Connecticut. It symbolizes the Biblical reference of transplanting and surviving as displayed in the farming activities of the early settlers. Around the edge reads "The First English Settlement In Connecticut--Town Seal." Although the seal had been in use many years, an annual town meeting on October 2nd, 1933 and adjourned to October 4, 1933 noted that "This Town Meeting Adopts the Cachet Sponsored by the Windsor Chamber of Commerce During WIndsor's Tercentenary Celebration as the Seal of the Town of Windsor, provided that the words "Tercentenary Celebration September 26, 1933" bed deleted and the words "town Seal Adopted October 4, 1933" be substituted in place of the deleted words.
From an official desccription included with the gift: Coins made after this casting were the official souvenir of the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Windsor. It is an art medal of high relief one and one half inches in diamter iand is minted by the Medallic Art Company of Danbury, Connecticut.
The logo of the Bicentennial Commission appears on the overse side. It depicts a Windsor Revolutionary Citizen leaving his plow and oxen to answer the call to battle. His typical farmhouse is pictured in the background.
The artis, Barbara Van Winkelen of WIndsor is a direct descendant of General Israel Putnam, Commander of the Connecticut troops who also left his plow to respond to the call of Lexington and Concord. A graduate of Yale University School of Fine Arts, she is presently President of the WIndsor Palette and Brush Club.
On the reverse side is the WIndsor Town Seal designed by an unknown artis many years ago. It is a primitive design of the Palisade and Indian Tepees as they might have appeared. A Colonist and an Indian are shown bartering. A canoe is at the River's edge close by. Also visible in the River is a two masted schooner.
Above this is the clinging grapevine, one of the three appearing ont eh Seal of the State of Connectictut, which represents the first three colonies of Connecticut. It symbolizes the Biblical reference of transplanting and surviving as displayed in the farming activities of the early settlers. Around the edge reads "The First English Settlement In Connecticut--Town Seal." Although the seal had been in use many years, an annual town meeting on October 2nd, 1933 and adjourned to October 4, 1933 noted that "This Town Meeting Adopts the Cachet Sponsored by the Windsor Chamber of Commerce During WIndsor's Tercentenary Celebration as the Seal of the Town of Windsor, provided that the words "Tercentenary Celebration September 26, 1933" bed deleted and the words "town Seal Adopted October 4, 1933" be substituted in place of the deleted words.
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