Summary

Australia Victoria Beechworth
Beechworth Exhibition Prize Medal 1873 (AD)
Mint: Stokes & Martin
Other Details: Beechworth Exhibition prize medal, issued in 1873.

Physical Description

A gilt bronze prize medal (48 mm diameter) from the Beechworth Exhibition of 1873. It features three Muses, standing facing and holding (from left to right) a lyre, steam engine regulator and sculpting hammer and chisel; to left a bee-hive, to right a male bust on column; below an oil-lamp burning. The motto on a ribbon betwen the lamp and figures reads, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. The reverse of the medal gives details within an olive wreath.

Obverse Description

three Muses, standing facing and holding (from left to right) a lyre, steam engine regulator and sculpting hammer and chisel; to left a bee-hive, to right a male bust on column; below an oil-lamp burning. The motto on a ribbon betwen the lamp and figures reads, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER and the mint name in small letters, STOKES & MARTIN MELBOURNE

Reverse Description

within an olive wreath; PRIZE / MEDAL / BEECHWORTH / 1873 / EXHIBITION and the mint name in small letters, STOKES & MARTIN

Edge Description

Plain

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