Uncommon pair of screw-back ‘gold award’ uniface prize medals issued for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 85 gm and 88 gm, both 70 mm x 70 mm, designed by Adolph A. Weinman. The first badge 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, the material decorated with bees, the emblem of Napoleon, with raised text and date encircling the image, “Universal Exposition-Saint Louis-United States of America, MCMIV." The second badge shows a large eagle with wings spread above a tablet, “Gold Medal, Louisiana Purchase Exposition," with two dolphins below symbolizing the nations' eastern and western boundaries, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
