Aust. Historical Medals

Lot 705    Session 3 (2.30pm)    Aust. Historical Medals

Estimate $150
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $180

AUSTRALIA, Australian Widow's Fund Members Medal, pre 1930, in gilt (22mm), by Stokes and Martin, an unissued Australian Widow's Fund membership medal which provides spaces for engraving the name and policy number of a member, obverse, a woman facing left, kneeling on her left knee trying unsuccessfully to bend (or break) a tied bundle of thin branches on her right knee, around above, AUSTRALIAN WIDOWS FUND in exergue, UNITY IS STRENGTH, reverse, THIS IS TO CERTIFY/THAT/....../IS A/MEMBER OF/THIS SOCIETY/BY VIRTUE/OF/POLICY No....., fine, holed and rare (illustrated); others Scotland, Queen Anne, silver five shillings 1705, (S.5703); Great Britain, George III, copper two pence, 1797, (S.3776); Birmingham shilling token 'The Workhouse', 1811, (Dalton 6); copper penny token, 1812 not local (poor) (Davis 40 p253); copper halfpenny token, Middlesex, 1794, Tooke (D&H 1045); Prussia medal, 300th Anniversary of Reformation in 1839 AE 43, cast bronze by Pfeuffer, obverse, cojoined busts of Joachim II and Friedrich Wilhelm III, reverse, Princes receiving sacraments, (Henkel 2305, Whiting Colln. 699) with auction ticket. Poor - nearly extremely fine. (7)