Lot 3159

Description

Arthur Phillip, The First Fleet 1788-1988, oval medal (55x73mm), by Amor, (Bicentenary Medals C.1) in gilt bronze, edge inscribed, '7. L.J.Carlisle'; in silver, edge numbered 1; in oxidised silver; in bronze; also a thin lead pull of the obverse; two heavy and thick lead pulls of the obverse and the reverse. The third with rubbing on nose of Phillip, otherwise the first four uncirculated, the rest very fine. (7)

The gilt bronze mintage is only 14. These medals were edge numbered and named to the Committee members of the Metropolitan Coin Club. The silver mintage is 49, bronze is 106 and Carlisle's book does not mention the oxidised silver issue.