1897 HK-277, Type-II Brass Fitzsimmons Dollar

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Bob Fitzsimmons, the winner, gets his own portrait on the Type II medal of the 1897 heavyweight championship in Carson City. HK-277 copies the layout of the Corbett piece, HK-276, with a right-facing bust over the name "Robt. Fitzsimmons" in a beaded border, and uses the same reverse, a wreath enclosing the championship legend with the place and the date March 17, 1897. Fitzsimmons had held the middleweight title since 1891 and gave it up to fight Corbett, whom he knocked out in fourteen rounds. He kept the heavyweight crown until June 9, 1899, when James J. Jeffries stopped him in eleven rounds at Coney Island, New York, and in 1903 he went on to win the light heavyweight championship as well. Hibler and Kappen list the Fitzsimmons dollar in brass, 33 mm.

Cross References

HK-277; PCGS #642640; NGC #850486