Summary

Australia Victoria Melbourne
Bronze Prize Medal of 1872-73 Victorian Exhibition (AD)
Mint: Stokes & Martin
Awarded to: Not issued
Other Details: This seems to be one of a series of samples entered by Stokes & Martin for the proposed Victorian Exhibition medals. For this sample the name of the winner was to be imprinted on the edge. Stokes have used their own name to show the method. (They did win a bronze medal in the actual exhibition, but this was not the design accepted for the medals.) The same obverse was used for the medal of the New South Wales Intercolonial Exhibition in 1873, meaning that the allegorical figure represented either Victoria or New South Wales.

Physical Description

An unissued specimen bronze prize medal of the 1873 exhibition. It features a female representing the Colony of Victoria standing three quarters left before rural and industrial scene; in exergue, the mint name. The reverse has the words PRIZE MEDAL within a wreath of olive and laurel and the edge is imprinted with STOKES & MARTIN, MEDALLISTS

Obverse Description

Allegorical figure standing three quarters left before rural and industrial scene; her left hand balances a shield standing vertically; her right hand holds a wreath. In exergue, STOKES & MARTIN / MELBOURNE. The artist's initials J.H. on urn to right of standing figure.

Reverse Description

PRIZE MEDAL within a wreath of olive and laurel

Edge Description

imprinted, STOKES & MARTIN, MEDALLISTS

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