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Medal - Hopwood's Punt Echuca, Australia
Reg. No: NU 35051
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- Summary:
- Australia Victoria Echuca
Other Details: A tourist memento depicting the punt across the river run by Hopwood in 1857 with a horse-drawn wool load arriving and the Bridge Hotel in 1858. It is given a nominal denomination of ONE PENNY. - Description:
- A copper (32 mm dia. 14.08 g.) tourist mementoe depicting the punt across the river run by Hopwood in 1857 with a horse-drawn wool load arriving and the Bridge Hotel in 1858. It is given a nominal denomination of ONE PENNY
| Discipline: | Numismatics |
| Dimensions: | 32 mm (Diameter) |
| Weight: | 14.08 g (Weight) |
More information
| Tagged with: | punts, tourist medals |
| Themes this item is part of: | Public Life & Institutions Collection |
| Primary Classification: | MEDALS |
| Secondary Classification: | Commemorative |
| Tertiary Classification: | recreation & tourism |
| Series: | Australian Commemorative Medals |
| Obverse Description: | Scene of Hopwood's Punt arriving at Echuka delivering a horse-drawn load of wool (another waits on the far bank); above, HOPWOOD'S PUNT ECHUKA below, 1857 / ONE PENNY |
| Reverse Description: | View of front of hotel, above, BRIDGE HOTEL in exergue, 1858 in small letters on sides of date the mint name, BRIM MELB |
| Edge Description: | Plain |
| Inscriptions: | Obverse: Scene of Hopwood's Punt arriving at Echuca delivering a horse-drawn load of wool (another waits on the far bank); above, HOPWOOD'S PUNT ECHUCA below, 1857 / ONE PENNY Reverse: View of front of hotel, above, BRIDGE HOTEL in exergue, 1858 in small letters on sides of date the mint name, BRIM MELB |
| Material: | Copper |
| Issued By: | Australia |
| Mint: | Brim Medallions, Western Australia, Australia |
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