Owner Comments:
TRANS-MISSISSIPPI AND INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION 1898, OMAHA, NE OFFICIAL MEDAL.
THIS MEDAL TYPE WAS CALLED BRASS BY HIBLER AND KAPPEN WHEN THE ORIGINAL SO-CALLED DOLLAR BOOKS WERE WRITTEN. JEFF SHEVLIN'S AND BILL HYDER'S NEW SO-CALLED DOLLAR BOOK SAYS THAT THESE ARE GOLD PLATED, NOT BRASS.
THERE ARE ONLY (19) PROOFLIKES AND (4) DEEP PROOFLIKES OUT OF THE OVER (190) TOTAL OF THIS TYPE LISTED IN THE NGC CENSUS AS OF 3/2024.
JEFF SHEVLIN SOLD A RAW "GEM BU" EXAMPLE ON HIS WEBSITE FOR $395.00.
EBAY SOLD ANOTHER MS 63 PL NGC GRADED EXAMPLE FOR $351.00.
Purpose: "To display the products, manufactures and industries of the states and territories west of the Mississippi River."
Official Medals struck in Mint Exhibit from dies made at Philadelphia Mint. Obverse is composite picture "of...the most beautiful women in the Trans-Mississippi country" while reverse was designed by T. R. Kimball, Omaha. About "25,000 of these coins were sold".