DICKESON, Montroville Wilson (1813-1882) designer, physician,
           numismatist, archaeoligist, topographical artist.
           
           Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1813.
           He collected 40,000 Indian artifacts on trip to Ohio and
           Mississippi River Valley (1837-1844) and built panoramas
           based on these specimens and displayed on lecture tour, 1852-.
           Also collected numismatic specimens and wrote The American
           Numismatic Manual of Currency of Money of the Aborigines
           and Colonial, State, and United States Coins, published 1859
           (but contained much misinformation).
           
           Died Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14 April 1882.

           C  O  I  N     C  O  P  I  E  S

1850ca Sommer Islands Shilling Copy. . . Kenney Dickeson 1
1850ca Continental Dollar Copy . . . . . .. .Kenney Dickeson 2

           M   E   D   A   L   S

1869ca Dickeson's Coin and Medal Safe Medal. . . Baker 530
1870ca Sommer Islands Shilling Medal (obv portrait George
           Washington, rev copy Sommer Islands Hogge Money
           shilling; designed by Dickeson, engraved by Robert
           Lovett Jr) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baker 615
           Auctions:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . .PCA 44:89

           N U M I S M A T I C   R E F E R E N C E S

P1   {1882} American Journal of Numismatics 17:23 (obit).
S8   {1952} Kenney, Dickeson 1, 2, p 12.
D15 {1957} Groce and Wallace p 178.
D29 {1976} Samuels, p 139-140.
BF2 {1999} Falk. Who Was Who in American Art, p 1:910.