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Scarce 'Philippine Exhibit' medal issued at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Bronze, 63 mm, 109 gm, designed by Adolph A. Weinman and struck by the US Mint at Philadelphia. 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, "Bronze Medal, Philippine Exhibit, Louisiana Purchase Exposition," with two dolphins below symbolizing the nations' eastern and western boundaries, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Holed at the top. Weinman later designed the Walking Liberty half-dollar and Mercury dime.
