1904 Gold So-Called Dollar HK-299a, Louisiana Purchase Expo

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Auction Record

Description

Hibler and Kappen record the official souvenir medal of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in solid gold as HK-299a, citing page 5 of The Numismatist for January 1911. The design is the one shared by every official souvenir coined at the Mint exhibit in St. Louis in 1904: Napoleon and Jefferson side by side on the obverse, and on the reverse the nation's map with the Louisiana Territory marked and its acreage and cost spelled out. The fair honored a hundred years since the purchase, which the HK account places second only to the Revolution in shaping the country. Charles S. Muir held the contract to sell the official medals, offered at the fair in silver, gold plate, gilt and bronze. Gold, 33 mm.

Cross References

HK-299a; PCGS #642694; NGC #851989