Dollar - Bombardment of Fort Sumter

Features

Location United States
Type Commemorative medals › Event medal
Year 1861
Diameter 34 mm
Shape Round
Number
N#
122112
References HK# 11
Harold E. Hibler, Charles V. Kappen ; 2008. So-Called Dollars : an Illustrated Standard Catalog with Valuations (2nd edition). Coin & Currency Institute, Clifton, New Jersey, United States.

Commemorative issue

Bombardment of Fort Sumter

Obverse

Beleaguered Fort

Script: Latin

Lettering: Bombardment of Fort Sumter; below all April 12 & 13--1861.

Reverse

Inscription

Script: Latin

Lettering: Fort Sumter / was evacuated / with all the honors of war / after a most heroic defense by / Maj. R. Anderson / with a garrison of / 75 men / against / a terrific bombardment / of 30 hours duration / by the So. Ca. Rebels / numbering 8,000.

Comments

1861 Fort Sumter, HK-11, This is one of the rarest so-called dollars, listed as "extremely rare" in the 1963 Hibler-Kappen catalog. While the catalog only lists this piece in white metal

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1861  Rare

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