Medal - Scout Good Deeds, c. 1980 AD

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Item NU 18487 Medal - Scout Good Deeds, Australia, circa 1980

Summary

Australia
Mint: Stokes
Other Details: Scout Good Deeds brass medal, issued aroud 1980. The receipient was to 'secretly transfer' the medal each day from his/her right pocket to his/her left pocket each day after doing a good deed.

Physical Description

A brass medal 36 mm diameter featuring the Scout emblem and motto

Obverse Description

Around Scout emblem; ON MY HONOUR I WILL DO MY BEST motto on ribbon below emblem, BE PREPARED

Reverse Description

SECRETLY / TRANSFER / ME TO YOUR / RIGHT POCKET / EACH DAY / AFTER YOUR / GOOD TURN / HAS BEEN / DONE

Edge Description

plain

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Collecting Areas

Public Life & Institutions
Acquisition Information

Donation from Andrew Reeves - Museum of Victoria, 15 May 1989
Date Issued

circa 1980 AD
Issued By

Australia
Mint

Stokes & Sons, Australia
Commissioned By

Victorian Branch, Scouts Australia, Australia
Inscriptions

Obverse: ON MY HONOUR I WILL DO MY BEST BE PREPARED Reverse: SECRETLY / TRANSFER / ME TO YOUR / RIGHT POCKET / EACH DAY / AFTER YOUR / GOOD TURN / HAS BEEN / DONE
Series

Australian Scouting Medals
Material

Brass
Axis

12
Classification

Medals, Civil, Scouting
Category

History & Technology
Discipline

Numismatics
Type of item

Object
Dimensions

36 mm (Outside Diameter), 17.127 g (Weight)
Shape

Round
Keywords

Scouting Movement

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