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Title
Medal commemorating cessation of transportation, 1853
Creator
Anti-Transportation League
Call number
SAFE/R 268
Level of description
fonds
Date

1853
Type of material
Medals
Reference code
888128
Issue Copy
Copy print : R 268
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
Physical Description
1 commemorative medal - pewter or silver? - diameter 5.8 cm
Scope and Content
Obverse: Profile of Queen Victoria. Legend: Victoria Queen MDCCCLIII.
Reverse: Coat of arms; the shield is as the New South Wales coat of arms, but is supported by an emu and a kangaroo, and surmounted by a rising sun. The scroll beneath does not bear a motto. Legend: Cessation of transportation 1853 Tasmania founded 1803.
Access Conditions

Access via appointment
Description source

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010 and Numismatic and Philatelic Lists
General note

Australia, Medals
Cessation of Transportation
Carlisle 1853/2
Pewter 1853
Condition E. Fine
Attributions / conjectures

Probably issued by the Anti-Transportation League
Subject
Medals--Australia
Transportation of convicts--Australia.
Exhibited in

Artefact or Fiction: Curriculum highlights, 20 April 2018 to 19 April 2019 - State Library of New South Wales (20 April, 2018 - 19 April, 2019)
Artefact or Fiction: Curriculum highlights, 18 April 2019 to 20 April 2020 - State Library of New South Wales (April, 2019 - April, 2020)

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