1785 Token Cambridge, NY, Burzinski-202 Communion

Coin Details

Description

This 1785 communion token from Cambridge, New York, cataloged as Burzinski-202, represents the early post-Revolutionary War period when American Presbyterian churches were reorganizing and establishing their independence from Scottish ecclesiastical authority. Cambridge, located in Washington County in upstate New York near the Vermont border, was home to a Scottish Presbyterian community that maintained traditional communion practices including the distribution of metal tokens. The 1785 date falls during the critical period when the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America was formally organizing as an independent denomination, adopting its own constitution and form of government. Communion tokens from this transitional era document the continuation of Scottish sacramental traditions in the newly independent American republic.

Rarity Notes

Burzinski-202. Post-Revolutionary communion token from upstate New York. Early American Presbyterian heritage.

Cross References

PCGS #913295; Burzinski-202; Cambridge, NY, 1785 Communion Token