Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal with this stunning silver medal.
Minted in 2014 with a fineness of 0.999, this uncirculated medal features the design of Jeff Shevlin and Daniel Carr.
The obverse depicts the locks of the canal while the reverse shows the map of Panama with a ship passing through the canal.
This medal is a great addition to any collection of coins and exonumia.
It was made in the United States and is a beautiful tribute to the engineering marvel that is the Panama Canal.
Bid with confidence and add this impressive medal to your collection today.
NEWS RELEASE FOR THE MEDAL:
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the completion of the Panama Canal, so-called dollar specialist Jeff Shevlin is partially duplicating commemorative medals that were carried aboard the first vessel to transit the canal a century ago.
To further duplicate the commemoration of a century ago, Shevlin has arranged that the new commemorative centennial medals be carried aboard a cruise ship going through the canal in December.
The 39-millimeter medals are being struck in .999 fine gold, .999 fine silver, copper and gold-plated copper versions by designer and minter Daniel Carr’s Moonlight Mint in Loveland, Colorado.
The centennial medals commemorate the first voyage through the canal on Aug. 3, 1914, by the Panama Railroad Steamship Cristobal, completing the first Pacific Ocean to Atlantic Ocean passage through the canal.
These specific commemorative medals were carried by him aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship on a 15-day cruise leaving San Diego on Nov. 30 with eventual passage through the Panama Canal en route to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The centennial medal’s obverse nearly replicates the obverse design that appears on the Panama Canal Completion 1914 medal, which is cataloged as Hibler-Kappen 398 in So-Called Dollars by Harold E. Hibler and Charles V. Kappen, revised and edited in a second 2008 edition by Tom Hoffman, Dave Hayes, Jonathan Brecher and John Dean.
The obverse design features a female standing on the prow of a ship with outstretched arms. Below her right hand is a globe of the Eastern Hemisphere, and below her left hand is a globe of the Western Hemisphere, with two scrolls between the two globes symbolizing that the two hemispheres have been united.
The legends and scrolls on the 100th anniversary medals have been modified to read 1914 – COMPLETION PANAMA CANAL – 2014 and 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY.
The reverse design for the centennial designs is an adaptation with minor modifications of the medal cataloged as HK-432. It is from the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, and features a ship passing through the canal locks.
The Cristobal carried 50,000, 38-millimeter bronze so-called dollar medals, each individually numbered on the reverse, that were struck by John F. Newman Co., in New York.
The method and scope of the distribution of those 50,000 bronze medals following the Cristobal’s passage through the canal is unknown, according to So-Called Dollars.
Shevlin said only a few hundred medals from the 50,000 struck in 1914 are known to exist today.
2014 centennial medals
The 2014 centennial medals will all be 39 millimeters in diameter regardless of composition.
* The silver medals will be edge-marked incuse ONE TROY OZ .999 SILVER.
* The gold medals will contain 1.6 ounces of pure gold and be edge marked 50 GRAMS 999+ GOLD.
All planchets will be polished and have raised, upset rims before striking.
None of the other medals will be edge numbered.
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