Australian Historical Medals

Lot 1569    SESSION 4 (2.30PM TUESDAY 9TH APRIL)    Australian Historical Medals

Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $70

MEDALS, badges, souvenirs and coins, noted enamel and gilt badges for S.S. Orion and S.S. Oronsay; Gould League of Bird Lovers badge in gilt and enamel; Royal Life Saving Society bronze medal to C.Haymes 1960, also The Intermediate Star to C.Haymes 1960; Anzac Appeal stick-pin (KC); various commemorative medals, 1897-1984 (6); Bicentennial Memento for School Students medals, 1988, in folders (5); tokens for Armstrong Shoe Mart, 2000 and Melbourne-Brighton Bus Lines, and a lost and found Reward disc; world medals, includes two reproduction ancient Greek medallions (issued c1947), in bronze, includes one with a bust left and the word 'DELPHI' and the other has ruins and Greek words translated as 'The Dome Delphi'; a single cufflink in gilt of an ancient Roman coin; a small piece of stone in a paper bag printed, 'Scavi Di Ostia Antica', this is a large archaeological site close to Ostia that is the location of ancient Rome; also a few world coins, some British minors including one penny with the obverse hollowed out, an Australian threepence, 1949, and approx 77 Australian pennies, 9 halfpennies including 1947Y. and 1948Y. and two cents, 1974 and 1975. Poor - uncirculated. (approx 145)