(1876) White Metal So-Called Dollar GW-888, HK-104, Lake Champlain

Coin Details

Description

HK-104, Baker 444B, is the white metal Lake Champlain medal, number 5 in the set of eight that New York medalist George Hampden Lovett issued in the Centennial year to mark the battles of 1776. Its reverse names the battle and its two days, October 11 and 12, over a central 1776 in rays and beads, with the numeral and "New York" below, all inside oak leaves. The obverse portrait of Washington faces right, bare-shouldered, inside thirty-four stars, with the legend for the centennial year and 1876 beneath. On the lake, American gunboats under Benedict Arnold fought a larger British force near Valcour Island. White metal sets of eight cost two dollars at issue. The silver striking is HK-102 and the bronze HK-103. White metal, 34 mm.

Cross References

HK-104; PCGS #642258; NGC #850196