1854 HK-8, Crystal Palace Dollar
Strike Type
Coin Details
Auction Record
- Price realized
- $576
- Sold
- Grade
- MS63
- Auction house
- Heritage Auctions
Description
Although it has long been catalogued with the New York exhibition, HK-8 is a British medal, made by Pinches of London for the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, and Hibler and Kappen now say it should never have been listed at all. The London palace first stood in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851; after that show closed it was moved, and Queen Victoria and Prince Albert reopened it on Sydenham Hill on June 10, 1854. The obverse shows a standing woman opening gates marked Industry and Science, holding a palm branch and a caduceus, with a lamb by one foot and a war helmet by the other. The reverse shows the building with "Crystal Palace" above and "Opened MDCCCLIV" below, signed Pinches and London in tiny letters. The building burned on November 30, 1936. White metal, 41 mm; the bronze is HK-8a.
Cross References
HK-8; PCGS #642013; NGC #850013
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