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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8175905, member: 20201&quot;]<font size="6"><b>1897 TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION </b></font></p><p><b>SO-CALLED DOLLAR HK-274</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1428769[/ATTACH]</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1428770[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><br /></p><p>The City of Nashville first undertook the construction of a full-scale replica of the</p><p>Parthenon for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of 1897. It still stands today as an art museum.</p><p>The exposition celebrated 100 years of Tennessee&#039;s statehood a year after its true centennial birthday of 1896. Centennial organizers blamed lack of funds, slow construction and the presidential election of 1896 for the delayed start date.</p><p>Once started, the Tennessee Centennial was a huge success with approximately 1.8 million people in attendance over the six-month period.</p><p>These medals are tough to acquire and tickets to the exposition are expensive and rare.</p><p>Perhaps because the exposition was less popular than those we are more familiar with.</p><p>Honestly, I never even heard of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition until I became well into collecting medals and tickets.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428771[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This example of mine has a small rim clip error at 4 o&#039;clock on one side and 8 o&#039;clock on the other. It is not post mint damage or tooling of the medal.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428772[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Parthenon in Centennial Park, in Nashville, Tennessee, is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens. It was designed by architect William Crawford Smith and built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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