Australian Historical Medals
Lot 335 SESSION 3 (2.30PM TUESDAY 22ND NOV) Australian Historical Medals
Estimate $1,500
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FORGET ME NOT TOKEN, by convict or ship's boy, (35mm) copper (possibly a cartwheel penny 1797), engraved on obverse with a ship, lighthouse, all-seeing eye, anchor, palm tree, coconut pile, water well and the words, 'Dear Mother' at the top and the year, 1825, at the bottom, reverse engraved, 'Forget Me/Not/Wm Bath/Aged 15', and a small bird above with a message letter in its beak. Pierced hole at top for suspension, very fine and very scarce.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 88 (lot 424).
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