HOPKINSON, Francis  (1737-1791) Colonial American political
          leader, judge, member Continental Congress, writer, heraldic
          artist, amateur portrait painter, signer of the Declaration of
          Independence.
          As an artist he was possible designer with Benjamin Franklin
          and David Rittenhouse of Continental Currency Patterns.

          C   O   I   N   S

1776 Continental Currency Patterns. . . . . . Breen 1085-1098

          B I O G R A P H I C A L  R E F E R E N C E S

BDAB{1946} Dictionary of American Biography, 5:1 p 220-223, by [G.E.H.] George E.         Hastings.
D15 {1957} Groce and Wallace, p 326.
BH  {1963} Who Was Who, p 249.
BF2 {1999} Falk. Who Was Who in American Art, p 2:1616.

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

BL  {1906} A.L.A. Portrait Index, p 716.
101 {1926} Hastings.  The Life and Works of Francis Hopkinson. Chicago: (1926).
O12 {1988} Breen 1085-1098, p 110-112; 113.