1917 So-Called Dollar HK-448a, Vet. Corps of Artillery

Coin Details

Description

Oreide, a brass alloy made to look like gold, is the metal of HK-448a, an unusual member of Thomas L. Elder's 1917 series for New York's Veteran Corps of Artillery. The design is the same in every metal. One side borrows the Confederation vignette of the Continental Congress's forty-dollar notes, with the burning altar, the all-seeing eye and thirteen stars; the other tells how the corps, organized in 1790, stood guard of honor at City Hall for Joffre's French mission on May 9 and Balfour's English mission on May 11, 1917. Those missions had come to work with President Wilson after the American entry into the war. HK-448a measures 38 mm and is DeLorey 95; the fiber and lead pieces are HK-448 and HK-448b.

Cross References

HK-448a; PCGS #643967; NGC #852024