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Cape Colony: Boer War: Queen Victoria / Restoration of Peace, CapeTown

Cape Colony: Boer War: Queen Victoria / Restoration of Peace, CapeTownCape Colony: Boer War: Queen Victoria / Restoration of Peace, CapeTown
Form: Circular. Pierced at 12 o’clock.
By: Heaton Mint, Birmingham (?)
Date: 1900
Ref:  Hern: 66; Laidlaw: 0276c;
Variations:
SizeMetalMassValue
38.0 mmWhite Metal20.3 gm$70

Edge: Plain.

Obverse: Veiled and diademed head of Queen Victoria, left. No maker’s name below truncation. Legend on a raised and roughened band: “IN HER REIGN LITERATURE SCIENCE & ART FLOURISHED. THE COLONIES WERE UNITED. LEGISLATION FOR THE AMELIORATION OF THE PEOPLE WAS ENACTED.”. Stop at the foot.

Reverse: Across: “VIVAT REGINA / (ornamental line) / PEACE, / OF ALL WORLDLY BLESSINGS, / IS THE MOST VALUABLE. / RESTORATION OF PEACE. / CAPE TOWN, 1900”.

Notes: Probably commissioned by Irwin & Co., tea merchants and grocers of Cape Town.

This medal shares the same obverse as Laidlaw 0276a and 0276b and all three have a similar reverse form.