1894 HK-248a, Gilt-White Metal De Young Dollar
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HK-248a is the gilt white metal version of the de Young medal from San Francisco's Midwinter Exposition of 1894, struck from the dies of the plain white metal HK-248 and given a golden finish. Its obverse portrait is of M. H. de Young, the fair's president and director-general; its reverse is a modified state seal ringed by "Souvenir of San Francisco California" and the year. De Young's committee paid for the fair through public subscriptions and contracts with concessionaires, and the HK account says it was built without a dollar from nation, state or city. The subscriptions were apparently gifts, so the profits went to buy foreign art as the start of a city museum, and in 1917 the de Young Museum replaced the fair's Palace of Fine Arts. The size is 40 mm, the same as HK-248.
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HK-248a; PCGS #620667; NGC #852218
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