1898 HK-283, Trans-Mississippi Dollar
Strike Type
Coin Details
Auction Record
- Price realized
- $368
- Sold
- Grade
- MS-65
- Auction house
- Goldberg Auctioneers
Description
Mining stood out at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha in 1898, with displays of how precious metals were taken from ore and a gold exhibit from Alaska holding a sample from every camp there. The Mint ran an exhibit too, and the official medals were struck in it from dies made in Philadelphia. HK-283 is the brass version, 34 mm. The obverse portrait, a woman facing left, was meant as a composite of the region's handsomest women, with "Trans-Mississippi Exposition Omaha" around and 1898 below; T. R. Kimball's reverse shows an Indian on horseback spearing a buffalo, dated 1848. Forty states and territories and ten foreign countries took part despite the war with Spain. The other metals are silver (HK-281), bronze (HK-282) and copper (HK-283a).
Cross References
HK-283; PCGS #642658; NGC #850494
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