SOLD: HK-12 U.S. Grant Pacific Railway Completion Modern Restrike SCD

BU

Reference HK-12
Date 1869
Grade BU
Price $50.00
Item # 2202
Metal Yellow Bronze

Medal commemorates the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Authorized by Congress and designed and engraved by William Barber. Obverse features the bust of U.S. Grant and states “the oceans united by Railway”. The reverse depicts a mountain scene with a train. Struck in Bronze. This is a 20-Century Restrike in Yellow Bronze.