1915 So-Called Dollar HK-423, Pan-Pac Expo

Coin Details

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Description

Octagonal, 40 mm by 40 mm and silver-plated, HK-423 imitates the California gold slugs of the Gold Rush. Its reverse copies the target-reverse design of Augustus Humbert's 1851 fifty-dollar slug, the main difference being "000 Thou" in the upper ribbon, inside the legend "Imitation of Famous California Fifty Dollar Gold Slug, Used by the Pioneers * 1850 *." The obverse, within a beaded circle, reads "Souvenir" with an interwoven PPIE monogram, a patent-applied notice and the exposition name, San Francisco and 1915, ringed by "The Days of Old the Days of Gold the Days of Forty Nine" and signed by C. G. Brinker of San Francisco. Irvine & Jachens of Daly City struck these pieces in oreide, a commercial bronze. Hibler and Kappen note that the obverse of the silver-plated pieces is always weakly struck.

Cross References

HK-423; PCGS #643928; NGC #850703