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THERE ARE ONLY (3) MS 65'S AND (3) MS 66'S FINER IN THE NGC CENSUS AS OF 7/2023.
JEFF SHEVLIN SOLD AN NGC GRADED MS 63 EXAMPLE ON HIS WEBSITE FOR $175.00.
JEFF SHEVLIN HAS AN NGC MS 65 EXAMPLE LISTED FOR SALE ON HIS WEBSITE FOR $350.00
Purpose: To celebrate opening of Panama Canal; to commemorate 400th anniversary of discovery of Pacific Ocean; to celebrate rebuilding of San Francisco following 1906 earthquake and fire.
Several states issued medals in advance of exposition as one means of raising funds for exhibition purposes; usually sold for $1. Except for Arkansas' Aluminum piece, all were Bronze; some silver-plated officially, others privately. Arkansas medal presented to "home folks and notable visitors"; Maryland's distributed on Maryland Day to officials and others.
Maryland honored two of its native sons who, through their songs, made the state famous. Two busts within circles, the upper portrait James Ryder Randall author of Maryland My Maryland, and the lower portrait Francis Scott Key author of the Star-Spangled Banner, microscopic W. & H. Co. I. Newark, N. J. The State seal is on the reverse.