Appealing set of four bronze non-athletic award medals issued at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, designed by Adolph A. Weinman and struck by the US Mint at Philadelphia. All feature the same design set within a different border: the front depicts Columbia, with arms spread wide holding the United States flag, beside a youthful maiden representing the Louisiana Purchase Territory; against a rising sun, the girl is disrobing the cloak of France, with raised text and date encircling the image, “Universal Exposition–Saint Louis–United States of America, MCMIV." The reverse shows a large eagle with wings spread above a tablet, marked as "Bronze Medal," "Silver Medal," "Gold Medal," and "Grand Prize." Two dolphins below symbolizing the nations' eastern and western boundaries, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Weinman later designed the Walking Liberty half-dollar and Mercury dime.
