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| Location | United States |
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| Year | 1883 |
| Type | Commemorative medal |
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| Obverse description | A large spread-winged American bald eagle in high relief occupies the central field, bearing a striped shield on its breast, an olive branch in its left talon and arrows in its right. A ribbon above the eagle bears the legend E PLURIBUS UNUM, with the arc legend AMERICAN EXHIBITION above and, in the lower field, BOSTON / OPENS IN SEPT. 1883, with a small five-pointed star in the exergue. |
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| Obverse lettering | above, on ribbon E PLURIBUS UNUM; above all AMERICAN EXHIBITION; below eagle BOSTON / OPENS IN SEPT. 1883 / *. |
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| Reverse lettering | above AMERICAN EXHIBITION OF FOREIGN PRODUCTS, / ARTS AND MANUFACTURES.; below edifice BOSTON, MASS. / U. S. A. / scroll; at lower r. of edifice, microscopic W. M. St. |
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