1873 HK-1003, Coining Press Dollar

Coin Details

Description

On October 14, 1873, Morgan & Orr of Philadelphia completed what this medal calls "The Largest / and Most / Powerful / Coining Press / in the / World" for the San Francisco Mint, and HK-1003 is the silver proof struck to mark it. The obverse is that six-line boast within a beaded border; the reverse, in seven lines, credits the builders and gives the Mint, place and date. The San Francisco Mint had opened on April 3, 1854, as a branch mint on Commercial Street, striking gold coins that year and silver the next. An act of February 12, 1873, effective April 1, made it the United States Mint at San Francisco. A few months after the press arrived, in November 1874, the Mint moved to Fifth and Mission Streets. Silver, 38 mm; copper is HK-1003a and white metal HK-1003b.

Cross References

HK-1003; PCGS #966394