Australian Historical Medals (1788-1885)
Lot 724 SESSION 3 (John Chapman Collection, 2.30pm Tuesday) Australian Historical Medals (1788-1885)
Estimate $650
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SOLD $850
NEW SOUTH WALES - SOUTH AUSTRALIA - VICTORIA, River Murray Steam Navigation and Commerce, in bronze, 1853, (77mm) (restrike) (C.1853/1 variant). When the Murray Navigation gold medal was stolen from the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1914, the badly rusted original dies were used by Stokes to produce restrikes (c1920). They are easily identified by the extensive die damage and a thinner, lighter flan (135gms) as compared to (255gms) for the original strikings. Very fine.
Ex Spink Australia Sale 5 (lot 137).
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