1887 So-Called Dollar HK-612a, Seneca Falls Centennial

Coin Details

Description

Seneca Falls, New York, marked the hundredth anniversary of its first settlement on July 4, 1887, and the obverse of this white metal medal says exactly that in eight short lines of lettering, with the microscopic signature "L. H. L. N.Y." The reverse pictures the original settlement inside a circle, with "Sha-Se-Ounse" above and, around the bottom, a legend naming Job Smith as the first white settler, in 1787. HK-612a is the white metal striking; the bronze, HK-612, is listed first, and both are 40 mm. Hibler and Kappen add nothing about the maker or the day's events, so the medal stands as its own record of a Fourth of July centennial at Seneca Falls and of the settler whose name, along with the place name above the scene, it preserves.

Cross References

HK-612; PCGS #643068