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TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD – THE GOLDEN SPIKE – 1 AVDP OUNCE – 39MM
The Golden Spike – Promontory Summit, May 10, 1869
Intaglio Mint proudly presents The Golden Spike – Transcontinental Railroad, commemorating one of the defining achievements of 19th-century America—the completion of the nation’s first transcontinental railroad.
On May 10, 1869, representatives of the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad gathered at Promontory Summit in Utah Territory, where their respective rail lines finally met. The occasion marked the completion of a continuous railroad connection between the eastern and western United States, dramatically changing transportation, commerce, communication, migration, and the development of the American West.
At the center of the ceremony was an object that would become an enduring symbol of the event: the Golden Spike.
Commissioned by San Francisco businessman David Hewes, the ceremonial spike was made of gold and presented to Central Pacific president Leland Stanford. During the famous ceremony, Stanford and Union Pacific executive Thomas Durant participated in the symbolic final joining of the rails. The celebrated photograph taken at Promontory shortly afterward—showing locomotives facing one another as railroad workers and officials gathered between them—became one of the most recognizable images of America’s westward expansion.
The obverse of this Intaglio Mint tribute recreates the historic “Champagne Photo” scene at Promontory Summit, with the two locomotives meeting amid the assembled railroad workers and dignitaries. The inscriptions TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD, COMPLETED MAY 10, 1869, 1869, 2019, and SESQUICENTENNIAL commemorate the 150th anniversary of the railroad’s completion.
The reverse pays tribute to the legendary Golden Spike, placing it prominently between representations of the two locomotives that met at Promontory—the Central Pacific’s Jupiter and Union Pacific’s No. 119. The inscriptions THE GOLDEN SPIKE and PROMONTORY SUMMIT, U.T. complete a design honoring both the artifact and the historic location where the two railroads came together.
The completion of the transcontinental railroad fundamentally altered the United States. Journeys across the continent that had once taken months could eventually be accomplished in days, creating new economic opportunities and connecting distant regions on an unprecedented scale. Its construction also came at enormous human and social cost, including dangerous working conditions for the thousands of laborers who built it—particularly Chinese workers on the Central Pacific—and profound consequences for Native American nations as railroad expansion accelerated settlement across the West.
Struck by Intaglio Mint in 1 AVDP Ounce of .999 Fine Copper, this 39mm round preserves in exceptional sculptural detail an extraordinary moment in American transportation history and the legendary symbol that came to represent it.
PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS
Subject: Transcontinental Railroad – The Golden Spike
Commemorated Date: May 10, 1869
Location: Promontory Summit, Utah Territory
Metal: .999 Fine Copper
Weight: 1 AVDP Ounce
Diameter: 39mm
Edge: Reeded
Mint: Intaglio Mint
Country of Manufacture: United States
SHORT DESCRIPTION
The Golden Spike – Transcontinental Railroad commemorates the historic meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869. Featuring the famous gathering of locomotives and railroad workers on the obverse and the legendary Golden Spike flanked by Jupiter and No. 119 on the reverse, this historic tribute is struck by Intaglio Mint in 1 AVDP Ounce of .999 Fine Copper at 39mm, preserving this landmark moment in American history in exceptional sculptural detail.
