1876 HK-22, U.S. Centennial Expo Dollar

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Description

HK-22 is the gilt version of the official Centennial medal of 1876, issued by the Centennial Board of Finance for the Philadelphia exposition that marked a century since the Declaration of Independence. It shares its dies with the silver HK-20 and the bronze HK-21: on one side Barber's figure of Independence rising beneath a field of stars, on the other a wreath enclosing the words "In commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of American independence." Unlike the silver medals made at the fair, the gilt and bronze ones were struck at the Philadelphia Mint and sold for fifty cents apiece, according to Hibler and Kappen, and the dies were destroyed once the fair closed that November. A larger size of the same medal falls outside the dollar-size listings. This piece is gilt bronze, 38 mm.

Cross References

HK-22; PCGS #642058; NGC #850059