Dollar - U.S. Centennial Exposition Liberty Bell; Independence Hall; Thick

Reverse

Edifice

Script: Latin

Lettering: The Liberty Bell Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof

Engraver: William Barber

Comment

Thick Planchet 2mm or 3mm

LIBERTY BELL-INDEPENDENCE HALL DOLLARS

Struck and issued by Messrs. Deihl, Philadelphia; designed by Key. Some of pieces with small bell struck as early as 1872; with large bell, 1874, in anticipation of centennial celebration. Liberty Bell, made of bronze, weighs 2,080 pounds, is 3 feet high, measures 12 feet around lip. John Pass and Charles Stow recast bell in 1753, it having cracked year before; in 1835 it cracked beyond repair. It now hangs in Liberty Bell Center, a dedicated museum within Independence National Historical Park near old State House, renamed Independence Hall, where Declaration of Independence was unanimously adopted by Continental Congress, July 4, 1776.