1878 So-Called Dollar HK-120d, Wyoming Battle & Massacre

Coin Details

Description

Gold was the presentation metal of the 1878 Wyoming centennial medal. According to a note in the American Journal of Numismatics (volume 13, page 48), the gold pieces were struck to be given to Mrs. Hayes, the wife of the President, and others; HK-120d is that gold striking, 36 mm. The committee's own official account put the medals to a different use, as awards at regattas and for displays by civic and military associations. George Morgan supplied the design, the dies and the medals, and in a notarized statement of July 15, 1878, he declared the dies broken and their pieces forwarded to the committee. The obverse pictures the massacre of July 3, 1778; the reverse, the monument in its fenced grounds with 1778 and 1878 and a Latin motto from Horace. The bronzed copper striking is HK-120.

Cross References

HK-120d; PCGS #642311; NGC #851816