1894 HK-247, Ferris Wheel Dollar
Strike Type
Coin Details
Auction Record
- Price realized
- $528
- Sold
- Grade
- MS65
- Auction house
- Stack's Bowers
Description
The big wheel at the 1894 Midwinter fair gets a medal of its own on HK-247, though the lettering above it reads "Firth Wheel," not Ferris, as Hibler and Kappen take care to note. The wheel sits inside a center circle on the reverse, with "Souvenir of San Francisco. California" and the date around it. The obverse is shared with HK-246: the Administration Building in a sunken field, signed "A. Hylen. Chi." on its base, a tiny Blumenfeld signature and a walking bear below, and the fair's full name in the legend. Its halls borrowed from Moorish, Egyptian and East Indian building, along with Old Mission and a reworked Corinthian, and that variety earned the fair the nickname "Sunset City." This piece is aluminum and measures 40 mm, the size also used for the Administration Building and de Young pieces.
Cross References
HK-247; PCGS #642602; NGC #850450
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