Panama-Pacific $1

[SkyMan]

I always liked this design, and as a Bay area resident it's fun to see the occaissional building from the Exposition. The coin is a PCGS MS64. The image was done by Bruce Lee and I think he did an excellent job.

 

[thebeav]

I agree with you on this design. It's beautiful......

As for buildings, I can certainly understand what you're saying. Here in Buffalo, we had the Pan-Am in 1901. There are still a few beautiful buildings from that scattered about. Unfortunately, many of the buildings there were made from paper mache. They're long gone.......

 

Paul

[SkyMan]

One of the main buildings (near the Marina) became the Exploratorium, a science museum. It too was made out of paper mache, and about 10ish years ago they totally redid it, I believe with a mixture of wood and stone, but I'm not sure. All sorts of museums were getting bongo bucks for donations then as we were heading into the dotcom bubble here.

[rbrown4]

Sy,

 

I really like the coloring/toning of that coin, very nice indeed.

 

Rey

[physics-fan3.14]

How do you make a building out of paper mache? Won't it melt in the rain? Were they full of candy and did little kids swing at them with bats?

[SkyMan]

How do you make a building out of paper mache? ...

 

Heck if I know. Unless you know what to look for it certainly looked like classical Greek design... columns etc. I was REALLY shocked when they told me it was paper mache. After all, I had seen it for YEARS, so who woulda' thunk it?