1886 White Metal So-Called Dollar HK-601, Albany Bicentennial

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Description

Albany marked two hundred years as a chartered city in July 1886, and HK-601 is the white metal striking of the first of the two medal designs Hibler and Kappen list for the occasion. Its obverse sets three male heads side by side, all facing left, which stand for an Indian, an early American and a man of the present day, with "Bi-Centennial" above them and the date Jul. 22. 1886 below. A tiny Tracie mark is cut on the truncation. Two obverse dies were used: one gives a lapel a flower, the other leaves it bare. On the reverse the seal of the city sits in a beaded circle, named around it as Albany's seal, over the dates 1686-1886. The same design in bronze is HK-601a. Rulau catalogues this piece as NY-Ab 4. White metal, 38 mm.

Cross References

HK-601; PCGS #643044