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Online Auction 18  7-8 Nov 2022
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Lot 1992

Starting price: 55 USD
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UNITED STATES: Panama-Pacific Expo, AE medal (25.69g), 1915, HK-400, 38mm bronze medal for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Aitken, Winged Mercury holding caduceus opens Canal locks allowing Argo, symbol of navigation, to pass, with radiant sun reflected off sail, with To COMMEMORATE - THE OPENING oF THE PANAMA CANAL MCMXV around all and "ON! / SAIL ON!" in exergue // two female figures, representing the hemispheres, face each other with Earth between holding cornucopias, with earth between, seagull below and PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIoNALE EXPoSITIoN SAN FRANCISCo CALIFoRNIA MCMXV around, small obverse rim nick, a few other small nicks, plain edge, bright lustrous fields, Unc. These Official Medals were authorized by Congress and struck at in US Mint Exhibit on hte Exposition grounds. A contest was conducted for the design with a $1,000 price awarded to the winner, sculptor Robert Aitken. Sold by the Department of Official Coins and Medals; chaired by former ANA President, Joseph Farran Zerbe. Prices were set at one dollar of the .890 fine silver medal, 50 cents for the gilt bronze and 25 cents for the bronze medal.

Estimate: 75-100 USD
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