1895 Gilt So-Called Dollar HK-268, Bronze, Official Dollar Cotton States Expo
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Coin Details
Auction Record
- Price realized
- $127
- Sold
- Grade
- MS-61
- Auction house
- Goldberg Auctioneers
Description
Henry W. Grady, the Atlanta Constitution editor whose speeches and writing did much to draw North and South back together after the Civil War, is the portrait on the reverse of the official medal of the Cotton States and International Exposition, held in Atlanta in 1895. Designed and struck at the Philadelphia Mint, it carries "Official Souvenir Medal" around his bust. The obverse is built on symbols of recovery: a cotton bale marked "K 124" on its end, the year 1865 over it, and a phoenix rising from flames under the date 1895 on a ribbon, with clasped hands below the bale. Hibler and Kappen read the rays of fire as the ruin of crops left by Sherman's march to the sea and the phoenix as the rebirth of Southern industry. HK-268 is gilt bronze, 35 mm.
Cross References
HK-268; PCGS #642623; NGC #850476
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