State Seal of California and Five Edifices

Value of 1894 HK-260 State Seal of California and Five Edifices

This So-Called Dollar is given the catalog number HK-260

The obverse text on this So-Called Dollar reads California Midwinter International Exposition 1894. The front side of the coin shows a female figure sitting at the throne with her left hand resting on the state seal of California and the rays coming from over the mountain in the background, ships on the water in the background and a miner mining the fields near the woman’s feet, the date at the bottom and a single line of text surrounding the beaded border of the coin. The backside of the coin depicts five different motifs showing five of the buildings featured at the California Midwinter Expo, no text is included and the five buildings are each in circles with beaded borders.

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