HK-Unlisted So-Called Dollar Tracking Thread

Zoins

This thread is to keep track of HK-Unlisted So-Called Dollars for events that are listed in HK. John Raymond @JRay123 has a great website to do this but not all pieces are listed on his website, so this thread is a supplement.

Here's John's website: https://www.socalleddollar.com/aaUnlisteds.html

We'll start off with this 13mm gold dollar sized 1883 German American Bicentennial medal. I have a holed specimen which I've mentioned in a few threads as a SCD candidate but finally got around to tracking down an unholed specimen here. Now I just need to find one!

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/exonumia-1883-german-american-medal-1881998993

1883 German American Medal (#7999) BiCentennial Medal. Nice Unc. 13MM.

Here's my specimen:

Here's my 35mm HK-597 from the event and two 32mm official medals from the event, which could also be included since HK includes many other 32mm medals

pcgscacgold

@Zoins Very interesting pieces. Thanks for the early Saturday morning read.

Zoins

@pcgscacgold said:
@Zoins Very interesting pieces. Thanks for the early Saturday morning read.

Thanks! I love So-Called Dollars because the events they celebrate take us deep into history and what times were like in the past! It's interesting to think that German American Day was launched in 1883 and lasted until WWI at which time it was cancelled due to reaction to Germans in America and it wasn't started again until 1983!

Imagine that these 1883 pieces look quite similar to medals we strike today, but this is before the first gas car was created in 1885!

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/when-was-the-first-car-made-turns-out-the-automobile-is-older-than-the-united-states/

Zoins

Here's a NGC MS65 that I wish I found!

Zoins

Here are some nice photos of Eglit-20 which certainly seems to qualify as a SCD, but is not listed in HK.

It is listed in John Raymond's SCD catalog as SCD-246:

@jray123 said:
146) Two small busts. Souvenir Medal around above. World's Columbian Exposition Chicago around below. 1492 1898 above within inner circle. Columbus and C.W.G. Ferris above busts. The Ferris Wheel Dimensions in four curved lines. Height 264 Feet Weight 4300 Tons Capacity 2160 Persons Engines 2000 Horse Power below within inner circle. Rv: Ferris wheel within inner circle. Ferris Wheel around above. Greatest Mechanical Achievement Of The Age around below. /// Scarce / Aluminum / 38.1 mm / Eglit20. Neither side of this piece is pictured anywhere in HK. (IMAGE)

Slab photos courtesy of moss_mine_treasures.