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

Coin Details

Description

When the Liberty Bell went back to Philadelphia in June 1885, New Orleans marked its departure with this medal. A crescent fills the center of the reverse, inside a legend in which New Orleans commemorates sending the bell back to Philadelphia. The obverse is the Liberty Bell die of the loan medals, the bell shown without a date beside it. HK-144c is the white metal version, 38 mm, and HK-144d is the same design in bronze. The bell had come south as an exhibit after Philadelphia's council voted to lend it, a decision lettered out in full on HK-144a and HK-144b. The fair that borrowed it, at New Orleans from December 1884 into 1885, marked a hundred years since the first cotton shipped from the United States to England.

Cross References

HK-144c; PCGS #642397; NGC #851916