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Medal - Tennessee Centennial Expo Official Medal

Features

Location United States
Type Commemorative medals › Exhibition, fair and festival medals
Year 1897
Composition Brass
Diameter 33 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Number
N#
123455
References HK# 274
Harold E. Hibler, Charles V. Kappen; 2008. So-Called Dollars: an Illustrated Standard Catalog with Valuations (2nd Edition). Coin & Currency Institute, Clifton, New Jersey, United States.
, PCGS# 642634
PCGS CoinFacts (https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts)

Commemorative issue

Tennessee Centennial Exposition

Obverse

Elevation of the building

Script: Latin

Lettering:
UNITED STATES MINT
PHILADELPHIA

Reverse

Legend

Script: Latin

Lettering:
TENNESSEE
CENTENNIAL
EXPOSITION
NASHVILLE
1897

Mint

United States Mint of Philadelphia, United States (1792-date)

Comments

1897 Tennessee Centennial Expo, HK-274, Brass, 33.3 mm, "very scarce" (HK, 1963). Electric lighting, then a novelty, was used lavishly in Nashville's Centennial Park at this exposition, which emphasized the state's principal industries of agriculture, lumber, and mining.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1897 

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