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Message:: [QUOTE="TheNickelGuy, post: 8322137, member: 20201"]1876 International ExhibitionMemorial Medal26mm Bronze [ATTACH=full]1474340[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1474341[/ATTACH] Most of these are found holed.Independence Hall on the 1776 dated side and 1876 on the other and it was minted on the exposition grounds.I remember reading about medals that were struck on-site at the Exposition on a portable press in the Philadelphia Mint's Exhibit. __________________________ The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official World's Fair in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from May 10 to November 10, 1876, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.It was held in Fairmount Park along the Schuylkill River on fairgrounds designed by Herman J. Schwarzmann. Nearly 10 million visitors attended the exhibition and thirty-seven countries participated in it. More than 200 buildings were constructed within the Exposition's grounds, which were surrounded by a fence nearly three miles long.There were five main buildings in the exhibition. They were the Main Exhibition Building, Memorial Hall, Machinery Hall, Agricultural Hall, and Horticultural Hall. Visitors could help fund the pedestal for which the Statue of Liberty was to be placed as the "Torch" was on display. For 50 cents one could go up inside. [ATTACH=full]1474337[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]