Australian Historical Medals (Contââ‚
Lot 1330 SESSION 4 (John Chapman Collection, 4.30pm Tuesday) Australian Historical Medals (Cont’d,
Estimate $100
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SOLD $120
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT LITHUANIA, in bronze (51mm) by K.G.L. (K.G.Luke) Melb, obverse, bust of Augustinas Voldemaras - 1883, reverse, legend in Lithuanian, issued by the Lithuanian admirers of the controversial A.Voldemaras. With bakelite case of issue. Uncirculated.
Augustinas Voldemaras (1883-) born near Vilnius, he became the first President of independent Lithuania in 1918.
He was a controversial political figure in Lithuania in the period 1918-1940 and after the occupation by Russia in
1940 he was deported to Siberia. See article by Ray Jewell in the N.A.A. Journal Vol 6, 1992.
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