1884-1885 So-Called Dollar HK-144b, Liberty Bell Dollar

Coin Details

Description

The Liberty Bell traveled from Philadelphia to New Orleans for the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, and HK-144b records the loan in the wording of the city's own permission. Its reverse, eleven lines with the first and last two curved, cites the vote of Philadelphia's city council, taken as a joint resolution, that lent the bell to the exposition at New Orleans in 1885. The obverse shows the bell alone, with no year on either side of it. HK-144b is white metal, struck from the dies of the bronze HK-144a, 38 mm. A companion design with a crescent at its center marks the bell's trip home in June 1885 (HK-144c, HK-144d). The exposition had opened on December 16, 1884, to honor a century of American cotton sent to England.

Cross References

HK-144b; PCGS #642396; NGC #851914