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Message:: [QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8171843, member: 20201"]1904 US Express Co. Security Dispatch HK-736 Brass So-called Dollar34 mm[ATTACH=full]1427630[/ATTACH]  [ATTACH=full]1427631[/ATTACH] U.S. EXPRESS CO., 50th ANNIVERSARY 1904. These medals were struck at the U.S. Mint. According to Julian, 100 were struck in silver, and an additional 20,891 were struck in brass and bronze combined.This one is Bright Brass. The United States Express Company, which operated from 1854 to 1914, was a privately owned company that forwarded parcels and freight. The company served the northern states from New England west to Colorado. The express business–transportation of parcels and valuables–was begun in America by William F. Harnden, an employee of Boston & Worcester R.R., who, in 1839, established a “package express” between Boston and New York.After a slow start, the idea caught on and during the following two decades dozens of express company operations were launched along various railroad and steamboat routes, many of which were eventually absorbed by larger outfits like Adams and American. [ATTACH=full]1427632[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]