Cape Colony: Boer War: Queen Victoria / Restoration of Peace, CapeTown
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Form:
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Circular. Pierced at 12 o’clock.
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By:
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Heaton Mint, Birmingham (?) |
Date:
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1900 |
Ref:
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Hern: 66; Laidlaw: 0276c;
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Variations:
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Size | Metal | Mass | Value |
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38.0 mm | White Metal | 20.3 gm | $70 |
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Edge:
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Plain.
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Obverse:
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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.
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Reverse:
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Across: “VIVAT REGINA / (ornamental line) / PEACE, / OF ALL WORLDLY BLESSINGS, / IS THE MOST VALUABLE. / RESTORATION OF PEACE. / CAPE TOWN, 1900”.
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Notes:
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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.
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