1878 HK-120, Bronze, Wyoming Battle Centennial Dollar
Strike Type
Coin Details
Auction Record
- Price realized
- $1,140
- Sold
- Grade
- MS65BN
- Auction house
- Kagin's
Description
George Morgan designed the Wyoming Memorial Medal of 1878, cut its dies and supplied the finished pieces to the committee, and on July 15, 1878, he certified that the dies had been broken and the pieces sent to the committee. HK-120 is the bronzed copper striking, 36 mm. The medal marks the centennial of the battle and massacre of Wyoming on July 3, 1778: the obverse shows the killings in a center circle, ringed by a legend naming the battle and date, and the reverse shows the memorial monument inside its fenced grounds between the years 1778 and 1878, ringed by Horace's line "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." The committee also had it struck in silver (HK-120a), brass (HK-120b), gilt copper (HK-120c), gold (HK-120d) and white metal (HK-121).
Cross References
HK-120; PCGS #642305; NGC #850214
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Other Strike Types in This Series
1877 So-Called Dollar HK-119, (C1877) Battle of Saratoga
1878 HK-120c, Wyoming Massacre Centennial Dollar
1878 HK-121, Wyoming Massacre Dollar
1878 HK-137, GW-959 Bronze Valley Forge Centennial Dollar
1878 Nickel Copper So-Called Dollar HK-120e,-Plated WY Battle Centennial
1878 So-Called Dollar HK-120a, Wyoming Battle & Massacre
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