1926 So-Called Dollar HK-457, Adam Pietz Dollar

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Description

Adam Pietz designed this 1926 Sesquicentennial piece and signed it with an interlaced AP under the date on the obverse, where a woman's head faces left inside the legend "Sesqui-Centennial-International-Exposition-Philadelphia." The reverse is filled almost edge to edge by a spread eagle with the sun and its rays behind it and, on its breast, a swastika over a leaf, used here in its older sense as a good-luck sign; the legend above reads "Lucky Token." HK-457 is the gilt striking, 35 mm, and HK-457a is bronze. A second obverse, with the Liberty Bell in an inverted wreath between 1776 and 1926, was paired with the same eagle for HK-457b (gilt) and HK-457c (bronze). The exposition itself, held in Philadelphia's League Island Park, marked 150 years since the Declaration of Independence.

Cross References

HK-457; PCGS #643985; NGC #850752