America had come of age, and wanted to let the world know. The Centennial Exposition, the first official world’s fair in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 10th to November 10th, 1876, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
1876 · SH 2-1 · HK-20 · Silver
This medal depicts a female (Liberty) as a symbol of the United States rising up…
1876 · SH 2-2 · HK-19 · Silver
Made of pure silver crushed from Nevada ores at the Nevada quartz mill located in…
1876 · SH 2-3 · HK-23 · Silver Proof
The Liberty Bell was on display at the Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia. The dates…
1876 · SH 2-4 · White Metal
William H. Key engraved two different dies with the Liberty Bell design. Careful inspection reveals…
1876 · SH 2-5 · HK-31 · Copper
The military bust of Washington is signed Key F. below the bust, made by William…
1876 · SH 2-6 · HK-39 · Silver
Engraver William H. Key’s signed military bust of Washington is combined with the large Independence…
1876 · SH 2-7 · HK-70B · White Metal
Key’s signed military bust of Washington with an unsigned arabesque scrolls reverse die. Apparently not…
1876 · SH 2-8 · HK-46A · Copper
A medal authorized by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a non-political and non-sectarian international…
1876 · SH 2-9 · HK-37 · Copper
An argument could be made that since the reverse die has a G.A.R Grand Army…
1876 · SH 2-10 · Copper
Key’s Liberty Bell is paired with a plain reverse that has a circle of garland…
1876 · SH 2-11 · HK-32A · Copper
The Washington bust design engraved by Soley is combined with the Liberty Bell design engraved…
1876 · SH 2-12 · Copper
The Washington bust design engraved by Soley is combined with the Independence Hall Bell design…
1876 · SH 2-13 · HK-42 · Silver
Both dies were engraved by George B. Soley. Soley’s Washington Large Bust die is also…
1876 · SH 2-14 · HK-53 · Copper
Soley’s Seated Liberty design with Liberty sitting on a keystone symbolizes the strength of America…
1876 · SH 2-15 · Copper
Auction catalogs from 1878 & 1879 name the reverse die the “American Colonies,” representing the…
1876 · SH 2-16 · HK-68 · White Metal
The Centennial Fountain was funded and built under the direction of the Catholic Church to…
1876 · SH 2-17 · Silver
Obverse die by Soley, reverse die with arabesque scrolls likely done by Soley as well.…
1876 · SH 2-18 · White Metal
Soley’s white metal variety reverse die has a “No” for “number” engraved into the die…
1876 · SH 2-19 · HK-47A · Copper
Soley’s Independence Hall obverse die and his Star reverse die with legend stating it was…
1876 · SH 2-20.1 · White Metal
Scott Stamp & Coin Company, in their October 27, 1879 auction, lot #689, sold a…
1876 · SH 2-21 · HK-72C · Copper
Soley’s star reverse was struck in five different metals and is found paired with five…
1876 · SH 2-22 · Copper
The Centennial Fountain die is found paired with Soley’s Washington Large Bust, this star reverse,…
1876 · SH 2-23 · HK-69A · Silver
The Centennial Fountain design is found in two varieties, with and without a comma following…
1876 · SH 2-24 · HK-62 · Silver
In the January 1876 issue of the American Journal of Numismatics Henry W. Holland began…
1876 · SH 2-25 · Silver
The H.W. Holland list of Centennial Medals published in the January 1876 American Journal of…
1876 · SH 2-26 · HK-51 · White Metal
Engraved by George B. Soley, who was a diesinker and worked at the U.S. Mint…
1876 · SH 2-27 · Copper
Soley’s Small Independence Hall paired with the Scrolls reverse. Only known struck in copper and…
1876 · SH 2-28 · HK-56 · Silver
A seated woman, similar to that on William Barber’s 1873-1885 U.S. Trade Dollars, represents America.…
1876 · SH 2-28 · HK-58 · Gold-Plated
A seated woman, similar to James Longacre’s one-dollar patterns, represents America. The reverse depicts an…
1876 · SH 2-29 · Copper
Soley’s Seated Liberty design is paired with his scrolls reverse. The scrolls reverse is found…
1876 · SH 2-30 · Silver
The H.W. Holland list of Centennial medals published in the January 1876 American Journal of…
1876 · SH 2-31 · White Metal
Soley’s obverse of Washington’s bust is paired with a die by an unknown engraver. The…
1876 · SH 2-32 · White Metal
Soley’s obverse of Washington’s bust is paired with a die by an unknown engraver. The…
1876 · SH 2-33 · Bronze
The authors struggled with this medal as it was possibly engraved by George Morgan, and…
1876 · SH 2-34 · HK-35 · Copper
Authorized to be struck by a church, so an argument could be made that this…
1876 · SH 2-35 · HK-33B · White Metal
As with the prior cataloged so-called dollar, the authors could have opted to exclude this…
1876 · SH 2-36 · HK-34B · White Metal
As with the two prior cataloged so-called dollars, the authors could have opted to exclude…
1876 · SH 2-37 · White Metal
Authorized to be struck by a church, so an argument could be made that this…
1876 · SH 2-38 · HK-81A · Silver
The Main Exposition Building adorns the obverse, with microscopic “W.H. Key F” (William H. Key’s…
1876 · SH 2-39 · HK-87A · Silver
The Horticultural Hall on the obverse, one of the many Centennial So-Called Dollars engraved and…
1876 · SH 2-40 · HK-83 · Copper
The Edifice of the Art Gallery is on the obverse. It is one of the…
1876 · SH 2-40 · HK-86 · Gutta-Percha
On the obverse is the Art Gallery Building, constructed for the Centennial Exposition held in…
1876 · SH 2-41 · HK-89A · White Metal
Key’s Main Exposition Building die and his Art Gallery die are paired on this example.
1876 · SH 2-42 · HK-89F · Gold-Plated
Key’s Main Exposition Building die and his Horticultural Hall die are paired on this example.
1876 · SH 2-43 · HK-89 · Copper
Key’s Art Gallery die and his Horticultural Hall die are paired on this example.
1876 · SH 2-44 · Gold-Plated
This is the only exposition building die not engraved by Key; it is a George…
1876 · SH 2-45 · HK-27B · Silver
The smaller Liberty Bell design is found with and without a star at 6:00 in…
1876 · SH 2-46 · HK-27 · Copper
The smaller Liberty Bell no star variety is considerably scarcer than the star variety. Struck…
1876 · SH 2-47 · HK-75A · Silver
The Declaration of Independence die has three different varieties that are found paired with the…
1876 · SH 2-48 · Silver
The Declaration of Independence die engraved by Demarest has four people seated and two standing…
1876 · SH 2-49 · White Metal
The Declaration of Independence obverse has three different varieties that are found paired with the…
1876 · SH 2-50 · White Metal
Two Declatation of Independence dies muled together, one is signed by Demarest, the other is…
1876 · SH 2-51 · HK-79A · Silver
The Declaration of Independence die has three different varieties that are found paired with the…
1876 · SH 2-52 · White Metal
The Declaration of Independence obverse has three different varieties that are found paired with the…
1876 · SH 2-53 · HK-74 · White Metal
The obverse, likely engraved by Lovett, features a copy of John Trumbulls painting of the…
1876 · SH 2-54 · White Metal
The Washington die, engraved by George Hampden Lovett, features a naked bust of George Washington…
1876 · SH 2-55 · White Metal
The obverse, engraved by George Hampden Lovett, features a naked bust of George Washington with…
1876 · SH 2-56 · Brass
Microscopic “Lovett” for George H. Lovett on Washington’s bust truncation. Shaking hands are in the…
1876 · SH 2-57 · HK-91 · Bronze
The first in a series of eight medals engraved and issued by George Hampden Lovett…
1876 · SH 2-57 · HK-92 · White Metal
The first in a series of eight medals with a large bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-58 · HK-93 · Silver
The second in a series of eight medals with a large bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-59 · HK-96 · Silver
The third in a series of eight medals with a large bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-60 · HK-100 · Bronze
The fourth in a series of eight medals with a large bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-61 · HK-102 · Silver
The fifth in a series of eight medals with a large bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-62 · HK-107 · White Metal
The sixth in a series of eight medals with a large bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-63 · HK-108 · Silver
The seventh in a series of eight medals with a large bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-64 · HK-112 · Bronze
The eight in a series of eight medals with a large bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-65 · Bronze
The first in a series of eight medals with a smaller bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-66 · White Metal
The second in a series of eight medals with a smaller bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-67 · Bronze
The third in a series of eight medals with a smaller bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-68 · Bronze
The fourth in a series of eight medals with a smaller bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-69 · Bronze
The fifth in a series of eight medals with a smaller bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-70 · Bronze
The sixth in a series of eight medals with a smaller bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-71 · Bronze
The seventh in a series of eight medals with a smaller bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-72 · Bronze
The eighth in a series of eight medals with a smaller bust of Washington, engraved…
1876 · SH 2-73 · Silver
The Lovett Battle Series with large and small busts combined. Reportedly one struck in silver…
1876 · SH 2-74 · HK-115 · Bronze
Another Lovett design using the same central device with a small bust of Washington as…
1876 · SH 2-75 · White Metal
Another Lovett design using the same central device with a bust of Washington as on…
1876 · SH 2-76 · White Metal
This original Washington bust design was engraved by Mathias Nicole Marie Vivier around 1818 for…
1876 · SH 2-77 · Brass
George Washington’s bust on the obverse with the Memorial Building on the reverse. Neither die…
1876 · SH 2-78 · Brass
The obverse is similar to the preceeding (SH 2-77) without the cinquefoils on either side…
1876 · SH 2-79 · White Metal
Obverse features the bust of Washington in civilian dress, three quarters facing left. Independence Hall…
1876 · SH 2-80 · White Metal
Obverse features a half length view of Washington in civilian dress facing three quarters to…
1876 · SH 2-81 · HK-118 · White Metal
Standing figures of Washington, who was 6’3’’ tall, and Grant, each with their hand on…
1876 · SH 2-82 · Bronze
Signed by engraver Demarest SC. N.Y. for Abraham Demarest Sr. New York, signature below monument.…
1876 · SH 2-83 · Copper
Scene of Liberty holding a wreath over the head of Vigilance, dies engraved by Charles…
1876 · SH 2-84 · Silver
Abraham Lincoln bust on the obverse. Reverse legend states “Our Nations Freedom Achieved by Washington…
1876 · SH 2-85 · White Metal
Ulysses S. Grant bust on the obverse. An angle with wings flys above the exposition…
1876 · SH 2-86 · White Metal
Obverse bust of Washington, engraved by German-American engraver Rudolf Laubenheimer. One of five different obverse…
1876 · SH 2-87 · Bronze
Catholic version, “In Honor of the Catholic Visitors to the International Exposition.” Designed by German-American…
1876 · SH 2-88 · Silver
English version, “In Honor of the English Visitors to the International Exposition.” Designed by German-American…
1876 · SH 2-89 · Bronze
German version, in German the legend states “In Honor of the German Visitors to the…
1876 · SH 2-90 · White Metal
French version, in French the legend states “In Honor of the French Visitors to the…
1876 · SH 2-91 · White Metal
The bust of Washington is on a shield with the date 1776 above, on the…
1876 · SH 2-92 · White Metal
George H. Lovett’s bust of George Washington First in War SH-76 is paired with Lovett’s…