Lot 3160

Description

Arthur Phillip Esq, engraving of the design of the reverse of the medal Arthur Phillip The First Fleet 1788-1988, issued in 1988 by the Metropolitan Coin Club of Sydney, an engraving as a mirror image onto reverse of a Perspex sheet (300x400mm), with the added words at the bottom, 'Metropolitan Coin Club Of Sydney', engraved by Hamid Qureshi, the engraver of the medal struck by Amor, (see Carlisle's Bicentenary Medals C.1), mounted in a wall hanging timber frame with black backing board to highlight the details. Pierced hole at top edge and cracks around this, otherwise very fine and unique.

This is perhaps a working model prior to engraving the medal dies.