1905 HK-333b, Antiqued Silver Lewis & Clark Centennial Dollar

Coin Details

Description

Antiqued silver is the third metal for the undated 35 mm Lewis and Clark medal, catalogued as HK-333b after the bronze HK-333 and the gilt bronze HK-333a. The obverse places the busts of the two explorers together, facing left, and sets beneath them a rifle, an oar and a telescope crossed, with the exposition's name running around the lower edge but no year. On the reverse the U. S. Government Building stretches across the field, Portland, Oregon, below it, and "Centennial Exposition" curving along the bottom, inside a beaded border. The occasion was the 1905 exposition in Portland for the centennial of what its organizers called the Northwest Expedition, the journey of Lewis and Clark to the Pacific. Its Forestry Building, billed as the world's largest log cabin, stood until a fire on August 17, 1964.

Cross References

HK-333b; PCGS #642756; NGC #852010