SIOUX CITY CORN PALACE FESTIVAL MEDALS

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The E-Sylum: Volume 15, Number 39, September 16, 2012, Article 26

SIOUX CITY CORN PALACE FESTIVAL MEDALS

Here's a U.S. Mint-made item I was unaware of - an 1887 Sioux City Corn Palace medal. It was in a "125 Years Ago" column in the Sioux City Journal. -Editor

COLLECTABLE COIN: A beautiful Corn Palace souvenir in the shape of a medal has been designed by the United States mint at Philadelphia. The metal will be about the size of a silver quarter and heavily plated with gold. On one side are the names of “Iowa Dakota, Minnesota, and Nebraska.” In the center are the words: “Souvenir of the harvest festival.” On the reverse side is a die of the Corn Palace, with the words “Corn Palace,” over the die, and underneath the words “Sioux City,

I checked my copy of the old Hibler-Kappen book So-Called Dollars, but was unable to find any Corn Palace items. I did find the below image of an 1889 medal on the socalleddollar.com web site. -Editor

To read the complete article, see: 125 years ago: Coin pressed for Sioux City Corn Palace festival (siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/columnists/peterson/years-ago-coin-pressed
-for-sioux-city-corn-palace-festival/article_9ad37511-648e-5ce4
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Wayne Homren, Editor

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