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Type: Token
Year: 1935
Currency: So-called Dollars
Composition: Copper-Nickel
Weight: 14.5 g.
Diameter: 33 mm
Shape: Round
Demonetized: Yes
Commemorative issue:
Pony Express Diamond Jubilee.
Obverse:
Rider with rifle on galloping horse left, legend around.
Lettering:
OREGON TRAIL MEMORIAL ASS'N.
- PONY EXPRESS DIAMOND JUBILEE -
1860 1935
Reverse:
Relay station with rider changing horses, legends around.
Lettering:
CHANGING PONIES
RELAY STATION
WHITEHEAD & HOAG
Edge:
Plain.
Mint:
Whitehead & Hoag, Newark, United States (1892-1965).
Comments:
This so-called 1 dollar medal issued in 1935 https://coins.www.collectors-society.com/wcm/CoinView.aspx?sc=267937 has diameter 1.25 inches.
Design by William Henry Jackson, the Research Secretary of the Oregon Trail Memorial Association. Struck by Whitehead & Hoag.
There was similar a so-called 50 cents medal of the same metal and most probably of the same size. It was considered to be struck in 1947 https://coins.www.collectors-society.com/wcm/coinview.aspx?sc=255639 .
Source : https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces8...
Collection : US Colonial Issues, Tokens USA & North America (1616-date)