In 1894, Chicago socialites rebuilt a miniature version of the great Midway Plaisance from the 1893 World’s Fair inside of two downtown armories. “Echoes of the White City—The Midway” culminated in a “Grand Finale” on November 27.
Ginger Rapsus's article "Key year for coin collectors is 1893" in Numismatic News (posted November 17, 2018) states that among the many souvenirs produced for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, "perhaps the best known of the souvenirs are two of the first classic commemorative coins." About the Columbian half dollar, Rapsus writes that "a good number of these coins did not sell and eventually were melted or entered circulation, sometimes turning up in change or in a bank roll. I know of [...]
