1892 HK-170 , Ferris Wheel Dollar
Strike Type
Coin Details
Auction Record
- Price realized
- $104
- Sold
- Grade
- MS61
- Auction house
- Heritage Auctions
Description
The first Ferris wheel was the single largest undertaking on the Chicago fairgrounds, and the HK account says nothing but the fair itself rivaled it as an attraction. This aluminum medal gives the wheel its whole reverse: the wheel in a circle under a ribbon labeled "Ferris Wheel," with "Greatest Mechanical Achievement of the Age" around the top and its statistics below, a height of 264 feet, a weight of 4,300 tons, room for 2,160 riders and engines of 2,000 horsepower. The obverse shows the Administration Building, named beneath, with "Worlds Columbian Exposition" above and a beaded border. HK-170 is aluminum and, at 44 mm, larger than most pieces of the fair; it is listed as Eglit 157. The wheel carried riders through the 1893 season, after the grounds had been dedicated in 1892.
Cross References
HK-170; PCGS #642446; NGC #850302
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