Fairs and Expositions

1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Grand Prize Award Medal. By Adolph Alexander Weinman. Bronze. About Uncirculated.

64 mm x 73 mm, shield (greatest dimensions). Obv: Liberty enveloping nude girl in the folds of an American flag, peripheral inscription VNIVERSAL EXPOSITION SAINT LOUIS VNITED STATES OF AMERICA, date MXMIV below, rising sun in background. Rev: Eagle with outspread wings perched on a cartouche inscribed GRAND PRIZE / LOUISIANA PVRCHASE / EXPOSITION, shell and dolphins below, American flag once as backdrop.

From the Q. David Bowers Collection.

Estimate: 200