World's Columbian Exposition medal, United States, 1894
date: label: Date made
content: 1894
name: label: obverse designer
content: Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
label: reverse designer
content: Barber, Charles
label: manufacturer
content: United States Mint
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) World's Columbian Exposition medal
label: Description (Brief)
content: United States, 1894
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Image: Scene of Columbus setting foot in the New World; male figures at lower right with pillars of Hercules with three caravels above.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Obverse Text: CHRISTOPHER / COLVMBVS / OCT. XII / MCCCCXCII / PLVS VLTRA / AVGVSTVS SAINT GAVDENS FECIT
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Image: Globe at top between two winged figures; tablet for inscription in center flanked by torches; ship below.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reverse Text: WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION / IN COMMEMORATION OF THE / FOUR HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY / OF THE LANDING OF COLUMBUS / MDCCCXCII MDCCCXCIII / TO / C. E. BARBER FECIT
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place of issue
content: United States
topic: label: related event
content: World's Columbian Exposition
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0009.0734
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0009.0734
label: accession number
content: 1991.0009
label: catalog number
content: 91.9.734
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Medal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: struck (overall production method)
label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall metal)
label: Physical Description
content: circular (overall shape)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 76.3 mm; x 3 in