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***THIS MIGHT BE COPPER**** SEND BACK TO NGC AS MECHANICAL ERROR. HK-301 COPPER MS 65 IS HIGH END.
Official Medal from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri. The obverse features the busts of Jefferson and Napoleon. The reverse features a relief map of the U.S. with a star marking the location of St. Louis, MO. This medal was struck at the mint exhibit at the exposition and sold as a souvenir in 1904. Struck in Bronze.
THERE ARE ONLY (6) MS 66'S LISTED AS FINER OF OVER (100) IN THE NGC CENSUS AS OF 6/2023.
JEFF SHEVLIN HAD AN NGC GRADED MS 64 EXAMPLE OF THIS TYPE IN HIS FIXED PRICE LIST FOR $275.00.
AN NGC GRADED MS 65 EXAMPLE WAS SOLD FOR $425.00 ON MICHAEL KITTLE'S WEBSITE.
Purpose: To commemorate 100th anniversary of Louisiana Purchase, "second in importance in nation's development only to American Revolution."
Official Souvenir medals struck in Mint Exhibit on grounds.