Commemorative Medals
Lot 2938 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday 24 November) Leslie J Carlisle C Commemorative Medals
Estimate $250
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $240
GEORGE IV, H.B.M.S. Adventure and Beagle, 1826, in brass (26mm) (MH.579; BHM 1262; Eimer 1188). Planchet crack at bottom edge, otherwise some original mint bloom, extremely fine and scarce.
The Adventure and Beagle under the command of Captain Phillip Parker King surveyed the Straits of Magellean between 1826 and 1828. King was born on Norfolk Island in 1791, the son of Phillip Gidley King, the 3rd Governor of NSW. He was the first and for many years the only Australian-born to attain eminence in the world outside the Australian colonies.
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