SOLD: HK-12A 1869 Pacific Railway Completion SCD

PCGS SP 61

Reference HK-12A
Date 1869
Grade SP 61
Price $4,950.00
Item # 2058
Metal Silver

Certified by PCGS as a Specimen Striking. Rare silver variety, one of the “Three Kings” of silver SCD’s. 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.