Coins and Medals.

8hr medal.

1788-1850 | 1851-1864 | 1865-1879 | 1880-1899 | 1900-1934 | 1934-1950 | 1951-1965 | 1966-2000

Paris delegation medal, 1867

Melbourne Town Hall medal, 1867

Duke of Edinburgh medal, 1867

Melbourne Regatta medal, 1868

Eight-hour Day medal, 1870

Ferdinand von Mueller medal, 1870

Melbourne Mint sovereign, 1872

Christmas medal, 1872

Bowling Club medal, 1873

Swimming medal, 1874

Exhibition medal, 1872

Rifle Association medal, 1873

Photography prize medal, 1874

Victorian Humane Society medal, 1874

School prize medal, 1873 - 1910

Comunn na Feinne medal, 1877

Silver wine medal, 1878

Ballarat Exhibition medal, 1878

21st Birthday sale medal, 1878

Wesley College medal, 1879

Sandhurst Exhibition medal, 1879

Christmas medal, 1872

This little medal was made as a Christmas gift for 1872. It exists in two forms, one with the Christmas wish on one side and the Lord's Prayer on the other, and this one in which the Christmas wish is joined with a portrait of an Aboriginal man, Billi the ex-King of Victoria.

Christmas medal, obverse.

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Christmas medal, reverse.

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Obverse – Aboriginal portrait by a Jeweller and sculptor Julius Hogarth, around the legend BILLI EX REX VICT. 1872 [Billi ex King of Victoria]		Reverse – The legend A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Transferred from National Gallery of Victoria, 1976

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