So-Called Dollars Made of White Metal (WM)
Inter-State Industrial Exposition Official Medal
1873 · SH 1-11 WM · White Metal · 1873 Inter-State Industrial Exposition of Chicago
The Inter-State Exposition Building, modeled after the London and New York Crystal Palaces adorns the…
1879 Pittsburgh Exposition Official Medal
1879 · SH 3-11 WM · White Metal · 1879 Pittsburgh Exposition
The Western Pennsylvania Numismatic Society exhibited again in 1879 and commissioned a new obverse die…
National Mining & Industrial Exposition Official Medal
1882 · SH 3-41 WM · White Metal · 1882 National Mining and Industrial Exposition
The primary three-story exposition building depicted on the obverse was built in the shape of…
Minneapolis Industrial Exposition Official Medal
1886 · SH 4-72 WM · White Metal · 1886 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Legend on the obverse Minneapolis Industrial Exposition with a large edifice in the center. Micro…
1887 St. Louis Exposition Official Medal
1887 · SH 4-81 WM · White Metal · 1887 St. Louis Exposition
Icons of the arts and industry adorn the obverse, the Music Hall edifice is on…
Hornellsville Exposition Official Medal
1887 · SH 4-121 WM · White Metal · 1887 Hornellsville Exposition
The main exposition building is on the obverse, a wreath and the exposition dates are…
National Railway Electric & Industrial Exposition Official Medal
1889 · SH 5-61 WM · White Metal · 1889 National Railway Electric and Industrial Exposition
Over a dozen ears of corn are hanging on the obverse, Korn King to either…
Northwestern Industrial Exposition Official Medal
1890 · SH 5-71 WM · White Metal · 1890 Northwestern Industrial Exposition
The main exposition building appears on the obverse with a micro signature below and to…
Southern Exposition Official Medal
1883 · SH 3-61 WM · White Metal · 1883 Southern Exposition
The main exposition building adorns the obverse. Reverse legend states the exposition opens August 1st…
St. Louis Enterprises Exposition Official Medal
1885 · SH 4-51 WM · White Metal · 1885 St. Louis Enterprises Exposition
St. Louis Agricultural & Mechanical Medal
1885 · SH 4-52 WM · White Metal · 1885 St. Louis Enterprises Exposition
1886 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition Official Medal
1886 · SH 4-71 WM · White Metal · 1886 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
1887 Minneapolis Souvenir Medal
1887 · SH 4-82 WM · White Metal · 1887 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ohio Valley Eagle on Drum Medal
1888 · SH 5-3 WM · White Metal · 1888 Ohio Valley and Central States Centennial
Augusta National Exposition Official Medal
1888 · SH 5-41 WM · White Metal · 1888 Augusta National Exposition
Nebraska State Corn and Turnip Medal
1890 · SH 5-72 WM · White Metal · 1890 Nebraska State Fair and Exposition
Centennial Washington Large Bust / Star
1876 · SH 2-18 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
Soley’s white metal variety reverse die has a “No” for “number” engraved into the die…
Centennial Seated Liberty / Star
1876 · SH 2-20.1 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
Scott Stamp & Coin Company, in their October 27, 1879 auction, lot #689, sold a…
Centennial Liberty Bell Rounded 6 / Independence Hall
1876 · SH 2-4 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
William H. Key engraved two different dies with the Liberty Bell design. Careful inspection reveals…
Centennial Lovett Small Bust Battle of Sullivan’s Island
1876 · SH 2-66 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
The second in a series of eight medals with a smaller bust of Washington, engraved…
Centennial Liberty Bell / Children’s HOP
1876 · SH 2-37 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
Authorized to be struck by a church, so an argument could be made that this…
Centennial Declaration of Independence three seated one standing / Washington Ornamental Bust
1876 · SH 2-52 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
The Declaration of Independence obverse has three different varieties that are found paired with the…
Centennial Declaration of Independence Three Seated One Standing / John Hancock Signature
1876 · SH 2-49 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
The Declaration of Independence obverse has three different varieties that are found paired with the…
Centennial Washington Large Bust / Crossing the Delaware
1876 · SH 2-31 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
Soley’s obverse of Washington’s bust is paired with a die by an unknown engraver. The…
Centennial Washington Large Bust / New Jersey Seal
1876 · SH 2-32 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
Soley’s obverse of Washington’s bust is paired with a die by an unknown engraver. The…
Centennial Washington Ornamental Bust / Commemoration
1876 · SH 2-55 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
The obverse, engraved by George Hampden Lovett, features a naked bust of George Washington with…
Centennial Washington Ornamental Bust / John Hancock Signature
1876 · SH 2-54 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
The Washington die, engraved by George Hampden Lovett, features a naked bust of George Washington…
Centennial Declaration of Independence Demarest / Declaration of Independence four seated
1876 · SH 2-50 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
Two Declatation of Independence dies muled together, one is signed by Demarest, the other is…
Centennial Delphos School
1876 · SH 2-75 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
Another Lovett design using the same central device with a bust of Washington as on…
Centennial Washington First in War
1876 · SH 2-76 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
This original Washington bust design was engraved by Mathias Nicole Marie Vivier around 1818 for…
Centennial Washington Independence Hall
1876 · SH 2-79 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
Obverse features the bust of Washington in civilian dress, three quarters facing left. Independence Hall…
Centennial Washington with Sword Memorial Hall
1876 · SH 2-80 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
Obverse features a half length view of Washington in civilian dress facing three quarters to…
Centennial Ulysses S. Grant
1876 · SH 2-85 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
Ulysses S. Grant bust on the obverse. An angle with wings flys above the exposition…
Centennial Washington See How We Prosper
1876 · SH 2-86 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
Obverse bust of Washington, engraved by German-American engraver Rudolf Laubenheimer. One of five different obverse…
Centennial France See How We Prosper
1876 · SH 2-90 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
French version, in French the legend states “In Honor of the French Visitors to the…
Centennial Washington and Liberty Bell on Shields
1876 · SH 2-91 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
The bust of Washington is on a shield with the date 1776 above, on the…
Centennial Washington Grand Entrance SCD
1876 · SH 2-92 WM · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
George H. Lovett’s bust of George Washington First in War SH-76 is paired with Lovett’s…
1964 NYWF U.S. Steel Corporation SCD
1964 · SH 26-16 WM · White Metal · 1964 New York World's Fair
High relief Unisphere on the obverse. Reverse legend gives information related to the Unisphere, a…
1826 U.S. Semicentennial SCD
1826 · HK-4 · White Metal · 1820
Struck to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. An eagle perched on…
New York Crystal Palace Official Medal
1853 · SH 1-1 WM · HK-6 · White Metal · 1853 New York Crystal Palace
Struck for the first “International” Exposition held in the United States and hosted in New…
Crystal Palace Industry of All Nations
1853 · SH 1-2 WM · HK-7A · White Metal · 1853 New York Crystal Palace
Engraved by George Hampden Lovett, micro signature G.H. Lovett N.Y. below the building. George Lovett…
Heenan Boxing Champion of America
1860 · HK-10 · White Metal · 1860
Bust features John C. Heenan the “Benicia Boy” who won the first clear claim to…
Centennial Liberty Bell / Siloam M.E. Church
1876 · SH 2-35 WM · HK-33B · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
As with the prior cataloged so-called dollar, the authors could have opted to exclude this…
Centennial Liberty Bell / Cumberland M.E. Church
1876 · SH 2-36 WM · HK-34B · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
As with the two prior cataloged so-called dollars, the authors could have opted to exclude…
Centennial Seated Liberty / Small Independence Hall
1876 · SH 2-26 WM · HK-51 · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
Engraved by George B. Soley, who was a diesinker and worked at the U.S. Mint…
Centennial Washington Large Bust / Centennial Fountain
1876 · SH 2-16 WM · HK-68 · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
The Centennial Fountain was funded and built under the direction of the Catholic Church to…
Centennial Washington Military Bust / Scrolls
1876 · SH 2-7 WM · HK-70B · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
Key’s signed military bust of Washington with an unsigned arabesque scrolls reverse die. Apparently not…
Centennial Declaration of Independence three seated one standing / Commemoration
1876 · SH 2-53 WM · HK-74 · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
The obverse, likely engraved by Lovett, features a copy of John Trumbulls painting of the…
Centennial Main Building / Art Gallery
1876 · SH 2-41 WM · HK-89A · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
Key’s Main Exposition Building die and his Art Gallery die are paired on this example.
Centennial Lovett Battle of Moores Creek
1876 · SH 2-57 WM · HK-92 · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
The first in a series of eight medals with a large bust of Washington, engraved…
Centennial Lovett Battle of White Plains
1876 · SH 2-62 WM · HK-107 · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
The sixth in a series of eight medals with a large bust of Washington, engraved…
Centennial Washington and Grant
1876 · SH 2-81 WM · HK-118 · White Metal · 1876 U.S. Centennial Exposition
Standing figures of Washington, who was 6’3’’ tall, and Grant, each with their hand on…
Evacuation of Valley Forge 125th Anniversary
1903 · HK-132 · White Metal · 1900
George Washington in high relief adorns the obverse. Struck to commemorate the 125th anniversary of…
World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition Official Medal
1884 · SH 4-1 WM · HK-142 · White Metal · 1884-85 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial
Engraved by George T. Morgan and struck in the U.S. Mint Exhibit at the Exposition.…
Ohio Valley Exposition George Washington
1888 · HK-146 · White Metal · 1888 Ohio Valley and Central States Centennial
The Ohio Valley and Central States Centennial Exposition which ran for 100 days was held…
Michael de Young – Blumenfield
1894 · SH 7-4 WM · HK-248 · White Metal · 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition
Remember the Maine
1898 · HK-285 · White Metal · 1890
The U.S. Battleship Maine was sent to Havana Cuba in January 1898 on a goodwill…
1859 Nassau Water Works White Metal SCD
1859 · HK-589B · White Metal · 1850
Neptune moves a lever with his right arm, which causes water to gush out of…
American Exposition of Foreign Products Official Medal
1883 · SH 3-51 WM · HK-594 · White Metal · 1883 American Expo of Foreign Products
A large spread eagle on the obverse. The Arts and Manufactures Building is on the…