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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8145509, member: 20201&quot;]Let&#039;s do another.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1915 and scarce 1916 </b></p><p><b>Panama California Exposition San Diego So-Called Dollars</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><font size="7">1915</font></b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420424[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420425[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The Panama-California Exposition was held in San Diego, California during 1915 and 1916 to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. Although not as well-known as the Panama-Pacific Exposition held in San Francisco during 1915, the Panama-California Exposition was well attended. Official medals were produced for the exposition and struck at the United States Mint exhibit on the fair grounds. These official medals were designed by C.K. Berryman, then a cartoonist for the Washington Star, and were engraved by Charles Barber.</p><p>The medals feature the very popular obverse design of Uncle Sam with his shovel lying across the Panama Canal. The reverse design of the first ship to pass through the Panama Canal, the S.S. Ancon.</p><p><b>The 1916 dated medals from the Pan-CA Expo are considerably more rare</b> than the 1915 dated examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>There appears to be 6 variations known, all are 34mm.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="7">1916</font></b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420426[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1420427[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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