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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8246698, member: 20201&quot;]<i>I don&#039;t think I posted this pocket piece yet</i></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>1904 OFFICIAL SOUVENIR MEDAL</b></font></p><p><b>of Louisiana Purchase Exposition</b></p><p><b>So-Called Dollar HK-299 .600 silver 33mm</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1452270[/ATTACH]</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1452271[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: Conjoined busts of Napoleon &amp; Jefferson</p><p><br /></p><p>Looks to have been somebody&#039;s pocket piece and I like for that, and the price was a steal!</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: Relief map of U. S. with Louisiana Purchase across that portion representing extent of purchase Louisiana Territory 1803</p><p>1,000,000 Square Miles $15,000,000</p><p>HK-299 - Silver 21 mm</p><p><br /></p><p>These visitors must have had a whale of a time!</p><p>A full size &quot;Blue whale&quot; and skeleton of the same were on display in the taxidermy exhibit.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452272[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The massive &quot;Obervation Wheel&quot;, later named the &quot;Ferris Wheel&quot; after its creator on site could carry as many as 2000 people at a time.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452273[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Scott Joplin was there, Thomas Edison, Geronimo and even Helen Keller gave a speech!</p><p>I suggest you meet me in Saint Louie, Louie &quot;Meet Me at the Fair&quot; and find some reading on your own. There&#039;s too much to write here.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do find myself watching Meet Me in St. Louis with Judy Garland and Margaret O&#039;Brien around Christmas time every year.</p><p>Yes, I confess, I have it recorded.</p><p>A musical film released in 1944.</p><p>Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes, starting with Summer 1903, it relates the story of a year in the life of the Smith family in St. Louis, leading up to the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, more commonly referred to as the World&#039;s Fair, in the spring of 1904.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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