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1948 Mexico Silver 5 Pesos

1911 Canada 25 Cents - One year Type Coin

1937 D Three Legged Buffalo Nickel

I have an extensive Exposition and World Fairs Collection of tickets, ephemera and medals and US commemorative coins so I would rather not go crazy posting and hi-jacking the thread with that stuff but I will post this one I like a lot and a couple others. 1915 - 1916 Panama-California Exposition So-called Dollar San Diego Scarce 1916 Date The Panama-California Exposition was held in San Diego, California during 1915 and 1916 to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. Although not as well-known as the Panama-Pacific Exposition held in San Francisco during 1915, the Panama-California Exposition was well attended. Official medals were produced for the exposition and struck at the United States Mint exhibit on the fair grounds. These official medals were designed by C.K. Berryman, then a cartoonist for the Washington Star, and were engraved by Charles Barber.The medals feature the very popular obverse design of Uncle Sam with his shovel lying across the Panama Canal. The reverse design of the first ship to pass through the Panama Canal, the S.S. Anson. The 1916 dated medals from the Pan-CA Expo are considerably more rare than the 1915 dated examples. There appears to be 6 variations known, all are 34mm.Obv. Full figure of Uncle Sam part pick in right hand over right shoulder, shovel in left hand, two Continents in background and handle of shovel lies across Canal--all within center circle; outside around Panama California Exposition San Diego 1915.Rev. Ship passing through Canal, above Official Souvenir; above around Panama Canal Opened by S.S. Ancon; below ship Aug. 15. 1914HK-426 Silver.HK-427 Bronze.HK-428 Gilt.Panama California Exposition San Diego 1916HK-429 Silver-plate but Obv. date is 1916.HK-430 Bronze, Obv. date 1916.HK-431 Gilt, Obv. date 1916 _________________________ Not to be confused with the other Exposition of the same time. 1915 PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION "Exposition State" SO-CALLED DOLLAR San Francisco This is a quite scarce "So-Called Dollar" or Medal from the "Panama-Pacific Exposition" of 1915. It was held in San Francisco, California to mark the opening of the Panama Canal. Called an "Exposition State Dollar" in the So-Called Dollar Book, it is listed there as Rarity 5. (76 to 200 pieces thought to exist).16.32 Grams 35mm. Gilt Brass."So-Called Dollars" by Harold E. Hibler and Charles V. Kappen. #414 ( I don't see much "Gilt" on this SCD here in the image and don't know why? ) 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition San Francisco Day Ticket Portion This is the center portion, a souvenir stub now, but when purchased and presented for admission, it would have had an "I PAID" portion on one end and an "Exhibitors Gift Coupon" on the other. Still, this is a very nice souvenir which isn't seen for sale very often.The Palace of Fine Arts appears on the front of this souvenir ticket.While most of the exposition was demolished when the exposition ended, the Palace was so beloved that a Palace Preservation League, founded by Phoebe Apperson Hearst, was founded while the fair was still in progress.For a time the Palace housed a continuous art exhibit, and during the Great Depression, W.P.A. artists were commissioned to replace the decayed Robert Reid murals on the ceiling of the rotunda.From 1934 to 1942 the exhibition hall was home to eighteen lighted tennis courts.During World War II it was requisitioned by the military for storage of trucks and jeeps.At the end of the war, when the United Nations was created in San Francisco, limousines used by the world's statesmen came from a motor pool there.From 1947 on the hall was put to various uses: as a city Park Department warehouse; as a telephone book distribution center; as a flag and tent storage depot; and even as temporary Fire Department headquarters.While the Palace had been saved from demolition, its structure was not stable. Originally intended to only stand for the duration of the Exhibition, the colonnade and rotunda were not built of durable materials, and thus framed in wood and then covered with staff, a mixture of plaster and burlap-type fiber. As a result of the construction and vandalism, by the 1950s the simulated ruin was in fact a crumbling ruin.In 1964, the original Palace was completely demolished, with only the steel structure of the exhibit hall left standing. The buildings were then reconstructed in permanent, light-weight, poured-in-place concrete, and steel I-beams were hoisted into place for the dome of the rotunda. All the decorations and sculpture were constructed anew. The only changes were the absence of the murals in the dome, two end pylons of the colonnade, and the original ornamentation of the exhibit hall.One of only a few surviving structures from the Exposition, it is still situated on its original site.It was rebuilt in 1965, and renovation of the lagoon, walkways, and a seismic retrofit were completed in early 2009. U.S.S. Ohio passing through the Panama Canal on July 16, 1915. The ship is passing the Cucaracha Slide, in the Culebra Cut, the eight mile long gorge carved through the continental divide.

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This is an advertising medal from Elgin Watch Co of Elgin Illinois which is located about 35 miles northwest of Chicago. It was made in the Exposition Building in the first year The Chicago Inter-State Exposition opened. The Elgin National Watch Company was a major US watch maker from 1864 to 1968. There are some with "Father Time" on one side and have serial numbers. They might have been included with a matching numbered watch at the time of sale. 1873 Elgin Watch Co.Yellow Fever Sufferers VarietyChicago Inter-State ExpositionR-IL-EL-9 A very similar medal exists with "Contribution to 1873 Yellow Fever Sufferers" over the watch face on the reverse.There must be at least 9 different Elgin medals that have been cataloged related to the watch company. This one was minted to benefit those who were affected by the "Yellow Fever" that broke out in Shreveport Louisiana in 1873. Most of the doctors and nurses there at the time were among the 759 citizens who died in an 80-day period to the epidemic, with over 400 additional victims eventually succumbing.The total death toll from August through November was approximately 1,200.Many were buried in a single common grave named Yellow Fever Mound. It began when men who were working to remove a log jam were bitten by infected mosquitos near the small city.Yellow fever virus is mainly transmitted through the bite of the yellow fever mosquito, but other mosquitoes such as the tiger mosquito can also serve as a vector for this virus.Like other arboviruses, which are transmitted by mosquitoes, yellow fever virus is taken up by a female mosquito when it ingests the blood of an infected human or another primate.When the mosquito next sucks blood, it injects its saliva into the wound, and the virus reaches the bloodstream of the bitten person.The transmission from a female mosquito to her eggs and then larvae, are indicated. The offspring are born as carriers without having a previous blood meal and it seems to also play a role in single, sudden breakouts of the disease.

a medal My oldest Exposition medal and from the second country I've collect outside of the United States.The 1862 International Exhibition, or Great London Exposition was held in South Kensington, London, on a site now occupied by the Natural History Museum. The buildings occupied 21 acres attracting about 6.1 million visitors.Above the brick entrances of the "Industrial Buildings" on the east and west fronts were two great glass domes, each 150 feet wide and 260 feet high - at that time the largest domes ever built. The exhibition was a showcase of the advances made in the industrial revolution , especially in the decade since the first Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. Among the items on display were; the electric telegraph, submarine cables, the first plastic, Parkesine , machine tools, looms and precision instruments. The manufacture of ice by an early refrigerator caused a sensation. The London and North Western Railway exhibited one of their express passenger locomotives, No. 531 Lady of the Lake which won a bronze medal at the exhibition and was so popular that the entire class of locomotive became known as Ladies of the Lake.A brand new shining penny in 1862 would buy you a guide booklet.A rare piece of ephemera, which I would like to own but that new penny today would be probably worth much more than the booklet. I'll be on the lookout for either.

1883 Liberty "V" Nickel w/o Cents 1883 Liberty "V" Nickel with Cents

1851 Silver Three Cents 1974 Three Cents 1882 Seated Dime 1875 S Twenty Cents 1877 Fifty Cents 1878 S Trade Dollar

1858 Flying Eagle Cent 1859 Indian Head Cent with Laurel Wreath Reverse 1895 Indian Head Cent 1865 Two Cents

1893 Isabella Commemorative Quarter Columbian Exposition

Indonesia Palembang Sultanate Pitis Teboh 8 sided Dated 1219(AH) struck 1804 AD ( tin )Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II (1767–1852)

I have a lot I could post in this 1800 1850 period Here's an 1828 12 Star variety Half Cent

1824 Nova Scotia Halfpenny 1824 Nova Scotia One Penny 1831 Capped Bust Half Dollar

1790's Prosperity To Old England Halfpenny Conder Token

Absolutely awesome display.

I'm still laughing. I have logged in here over a thousand times and many more not logged in visits I bet, and yesterday was the first time I saw the site appear like this. I have trouble seeing small stuff so I set my text big and zoom high on most everything. It is nice at 80% on the laptop but on my PC it will be much better and a permanent setting on that larger screen so I see it as it is intended. At 100% ( How I saw it every time until last night ) At 80%

OMG I just noticed that my Zoom setting was at 80% There is actually nothing new I guess, the layout just appears much different at 80% than it does at 100% which is what I have always looked at the site with. Still, it's new to me and I am a little embarrassed for posting a new topic. LOL You can delete the whole sha-bang and I wouldn't mind.

I sure do like the new look. Thank you! Great job!

Amazing coins posted above! Two heads on one coin Somebody had to do it.

The 1640 looks much better than MS62. There are no hits on it without magnification and those I see could be from the strike. I looked pretty hard at those images in the magnified window. They are tiny few and shallow. The busy design makes any minor flaws practically non existent. I don't put a lot of stock in the so called top 3 graders. Have a few dozen where about half that are way off and the other half I'm tickled with the higher grade than I expected. Some I feel are on spot. This 1640 could be a beautiful AU58 though, maybe the slightest cabinet wear on the high points. The toning may hide any slight wear. Maybe that is why it got MS62 and not higher. Maybe for the beautiful eye appeal and toning? The only one that could really dispute the grade is the one holding it in hand. All these coins are sublime!

The story of "A Silver Cob" I received a surprising message here from robinjojo stating he wanted to send me one. A gift! What ?!? I am sure that he saw my recent Wanted post in The Cabinet and a couple threads I started not too long ago about copper Spanish hammered coins and an 1808 8 Reales coin as my latest acquisitions. I never expected to receive such a generous present as this . . . . 1652 8 Reales Bolivia Shipwreck Coin Potosi Mint Imagine the journey of this coin to my hand. Slaves worked deep the mines, chipping away at the hard rock to get the silver ore. Other slaves, carried 100 plus pound sacks or baskets of ore up dangerous high ladders. Sometimes they fell to their death. Off to the smelters around the Potosi Bolivia mining community. Finally cast into and cut from bars, each coin was struck by hand. Eventually, they were crossing over harsh terrain for about 200 miles to the Port of Arica (most likely) in Chile on the Pacific coast for shipment to numerous destinations in the early global economy. This coin however, had quite a trip. I cannot say where it was recovered, but there is a good chance it was actually salvaged twice from two different shipwrecks. After 1000 miles slowly sailing north it sank near shore in the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Slaves again dove for the treasure of the Capitana, what they salvaged was again shipped up the the isthmus of Panama and once again carried overland to the Caribbean Seaport and loaded on the Spanish ship Maravillas headed for Spain. My guess is this coin was probably recovered south of the Bahamas in the early 1980's. READ the two links below the confused doggie picture. When I opened the package, I had an odd feeling, I could actually feel the history in my hand. I am so excited, thank you robinjojo for the great gift. I will pay forward in some way. I know it is valuable. When I try to convey my excitement in conversation with my wife about it though, she looks at me like my dog would if I would rub a balloon in my hair and let the static electricity make it stick to a wall. _____________________ BOLIVIA EL CAPITANA SHIPWRECK 1654 _____________________ I cannot bring myself to copy this text and repost it so here is the story of the "First" shipwreck. https://www.pirategoldcoins.com/el-capitana-shipwreck-1654.html _____________________ The MARAVILLAS Story 1656 _____________________ Here is the story of the "Second" shipwreck. https://divingthemaravillas.wordpress.com/

Holy smokes!

Wow. Nice collection.

I thought I might have posted here but I don't see it. Haven't been buying much lately but I do have this set of Sovereigns. This 7 gold sovereign coin set confuses me but I like it. It states these are assembled with actual coinage meant for circulation so I am thinking these dates are accurate and the coins are really that old. The COA states this and also says that they are in at least VF condition, however these all appear to be in uncirculated condition without any super close examination. They are all pleasing examples.I thought they would have a date on them for 2000 or something since the booklet is copyrighted as such. This is set number 819 out of the total 958 sets that were assembled by The Royal Mint. One 1925 dated London Mint sovereign (no mintmark).One 1925 dated sovereign from the Sydney Mint in Australia (mintmark S).One 1925 dated sovereign from the Melbourne Mint in Australia (mintmark M).One 1919 dated sovereign from the Perth Mint in Australia (mintmark P).One 1911 dated sovereign from the Ottawa Canada Mint (mintmark C).One 1918 dated sovereign from the Bombay India Mint (mintmark I).One 1925 dated sovereign from the Pretoria South Africa Mint (mintmark S.A.)