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Online Auction 20  10-11 Apr 2023
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Lot 1785

Starting price: 80 USD
Price realized: 80 USD
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UNITED STATES: AE medal, 1906, HK-652, 33mm struck in brass, CINCINNATI FALL FESTIVAL around CFF Monogram within wreath // SOUVENIR above edifice, date below; issuer, designer, extent of issue unknown, a superb quality example! PCGS graded MS65. Apparently Ohio Mechanics Institute succeeded by Cincinnati Fall Festival Association as sponsor of annual industrial fairs. Latter organized 1900 by local businessmen; staged first exposition that year in famed Music Hall; annually thereafter through 1906. This 1906 Festival held Sept. 5-22; included "huge spectacle...on canal banks"; attracted "hundreds of thousands of people."

Estimate: 100-150 USD
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