Aust. Historical Medals
Lot 536 SESSION 3 (2.30PM TUESDAY 2ND APRIL) Aust. Historical Medals
Estimate $150
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CONVICT TOKEN, a George III cartwheel penny partly shaved smooth and with a centre part hole on both sides and on the reverse is a series of stipple marks of roughly 4-lines in the shape of a square near top edge, obverse stipple inscribed around the edge, 'T. Chambers.', with the stops in the form of larger part holes. The coin poor, otherwise very fine.
There were three people named T.Chambers who were sent to Australia as convicts. They are as follows, (1) Thomas Chambers arrived at Van Diemen's Land on board the Medina on 19 April 1825 (sentence Life); (2) Thomas Chambers arrived at New South Wales on board John on 22 May 1829 (sentence 14 years); (3) Thomas Chambers arrived at New South Wales on board John Barry on 7 September 1835 (sentence 7 years).
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