• Title
  Medal commemorating cessation of transportation, 1853
• Creator
  Anti-Transportation League
• Call number
  SAFE/R 622
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1853
• Type of material
  Medals
• Reference code
  888138
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 commemorative medal - pewter - 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
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010 and Numismatic and Philatelic Lists
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1050825
  Australia, Medals
  Cessation of Transportation
  C. [Carlisle] 1853/2
  Pewter, 1853
  Condition v. fine
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Probably issued by the Anti-Transportation League
• Subject
  Medals--Australia
  Transportation of convicts--Australia.
  
• Topic
  clubs, associations, societies etc.
  coats of arms
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE140494

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