1915 HK-401, Panama Canal Dollar

Coin Details

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Description

Gilt pieces of the official Panama-Pacific medal sold for fifty cents, between the bronze at a quarter and the silver at a dollar, all of them struck in the Mint's exhibit inside the exposition. The fair opened on February 20, 1915, when President Wilson pressed a gold key from across the country, opening the doors and setting the machinery on the grounds in motion, and it closed on December 4 after more than eighteen million admissions. Robert Aitken's obverse shows winged Mercury opening the canal locks for the Argo under a legend for the canal's opening in M C M X V, and the reverse joins two figures of the hemispheres around the earth above a seagull. HK-401 is the gilt striking, 38 mm, of the design also struck in silver (HK-399) and bronze (HK-400).

Cross References

HK-401; PCGS #514203; NGC #850669; PCGS #643855