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Medal - Memphis Sesquicentennial Memphis, Tennessee
| Location | United States |
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| Year | 1969 |
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| Reference(s) | Dean#D1969-3c |
| Obverse description | Three overlapping busts in left profile relief depicting explorer Hernando de Soto, President Andrew Jackson, and musician W.C. Handy, identified by name below each effigy. The lower field bears the bold legend MEMPHIS in large relief letters, with SESQUICENTENNIAL, 1819-1969 inscribed in a curved legend beneath. |
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| Obverse lettering | DE SOTO JACKSON HANDY MEMPHIS SESQUICENTENNIAL, 1819-1969 |
| Reverse description | The reverse features the seal of Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, displayed within a rounded rectangular cartouche. The central device depicts a Mississippi River paddlewheel steamboat flanked by a tree and a cogwheel in the upper field, with a cotton boll on a stem below. The surrounding legend reads SHELBY MEMPHIS COUNTY TENNESSEE, with the Philadelphia Mint mark P in the lower exergue. |
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