Spencer Collection of So Called Dollars
HK-705 BR, Northampton Tercentenniary


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Set Details
Coin Description: 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair Monorail
Grade: Genuine
Grade Comment: Superb Specimen
Owner: Spencer Collection
 
Set Category: Token & Medals
Set Name: Spencer Collection of So Called Dollars
Slot Name: HK-705 BR, Northampton Tercentenniary
Research: Currently not available

Owner's Description

Alweg 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair Metal Pin, Not available to the General Public, Scarce. Part of the Spencer Collection's Seattle Worlds Fair Medal Set. Alweg was founded by Swedish industrial magnate Dr. Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren in January 1953 as Alweg-Forschung, GmbH (Alweg Research Corporation), based in Fühlingen, a suburb of Cologne, Germany. The company was an outgrowth of the Verkehrsbahn-Studiengesellschaft (Transit Railway Study Group), which had already presented its first monorail designs and prototypes in the previous year. The Alweg name is an acronym of Dr. Wenner-Gren's name (Axel Lennart WEnner-Gren). Alweg is best remembered for developing the original Disneyland Monorail System, which opened in 1959, and the Seattle Center Monorail, which opened in time for the 1962 Century 21 Exposition.[citation needed] Both systems remain operational, with the Seattle Center Monorail still using the original Alweg trains which have traveled over one million miles.

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