1890 White Metal So-Called Dollar HK-617c, Allegheny City Semi-Centennial
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Rulau numbers this white metal medal Alg 5, and Hibler and Kappen list it as HK-617c, the third metal of the Allegheny City semi-centennial design after bronze (HK-617) and silver (HK-617b). It is 38 mm, the size given for the group. The lettered side names both the occasion and the day: "Semi-Centennial of Allegheny City" around a big wreath that holds the words "Held / July 17, / 1890." Turned over, it carries the seal of the City of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, with its picture of a log cabin and a man in a canoe and the heading "First Log Cabin." No maker, sponsor or selling figure is recorded in the listing, and the event is known chiefly from what the piece itself says: a fiftieth-anniversary observance held in the city in the summer of 1890.
Cross References
HK-617C; PCGS #643087
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