Phoenix rising from flames.
Script Lettering:
SUBSTITUTE FOR SHIN PLASTERERS
NOV. R
1837
Oak wreath surrounding the words "MAY TENTH 1837."
Script: Latin
Lettering:
SPECIE PAYMENTS SUSPENDED
MAY
TENTH
1837
Whitman# W-11-330a, Q. David Bowers, Kenneth E. Bressett, Lawrence R. Stack; 2009. Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins. Whitman Publishing Company, Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
TC# 340903, McColl# 1424