The Boston Tea Party: American colonists, frustrated and outraged by "taxation without representation" defiantly threw 340 chests of United East India Company tea into Boston Harbor, which inevitably propelled the fledgling country down the road towards revolution. This event is commemorated by this gold medallion featuring the engraving of a merchant ship and the words Boston Tea Party on one side, and on the reverse the distinctive heart shaped symbol of the United East India Company
