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Bridgeport Board of Trade - 1876 - Bridgeport, CT
While this medal appears to be aluminum and is listed as such, there still is possibility that it is of an extremely light weight White Metal. If Aluminum, it is the earliest medal of that metal known to the authors.
Obverse: Within sunken center, view of industrial Bridgeport; around, within two circles Seal of Board of Trade Bridgeport, Conn 1876; around all The Best City on the Western Hemisphere; beaded border.
Reverse: Local Pride Souvenir / of the / Industrial / Capital / of / Connecticut / Made in Bridgeport; around, between circle and beaded border Compliments of the Board of Trade
HK-590 - Aluminum, thick planchet. Size 28.
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