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Coin Reference Library Gold Commemoratives
1904 $1 Lewis and Clark
Mintage: 10,025
Designer: Charles E. Barber
This souvenir issue gold dollar was struck to mark the Lewis and Clark
Centennial Exposition held in Portland, Oregon in 1905. Explorers Lewis and Clark are
represented on each side of the coin, our nation's only two-headed coin. Charles E. Barber
appears to have copied the Charles Wilson Peale portraits of Lewis and Clark in
Independence Hall, Philadelphia. In September 1904, the Philadelphia mint struck 25,000
Lewis and Clark dollars. They remained in the vaults for nearly a year since the
Exposition did not open until June 1, 1905. The sale of this coin helped finance a bronze
memorial in Portland of Sacagawea, the Indian guide who assisted in the famous expedition.
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