1915 So-Called Dollar HK-418a, Exposition City Dollar

Coin Details

Description

Two oceans exchange a wreath across the Isthmus on the reverse of HK-418a: on a relief map of North and South America, a nude figure in the Atlantic passes it over the Panama Canal to her counterpart in the Pacific, and a crossed ribbon below records the canal's opening. A. P. Starke's copyright notice circles the top in microscopic letters. The obverse is the Exposition City side, with a seated woman holding a palm branch over the fair's buildings and the words "the Exposition City" under 1915 and San Francisco. San Francisco's fair of 1915 celebrated the canal, four centuries since Europeans first saw the Pacific, and the city's recovery from the 1906 disaster. HK-418a is gilt, 37 mm, a companion to brass HK-417 and bronze HK-418.

Cross References

HK-418a; PCGS #643916; NGC #850695