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Medal - Melbourne Exhibition Prize, White Metal Trial Strike, Victoria, Australia, 1854
Reg. No: NU 34984
- Summary:
- Australia Victoria Melbourne
Medal - Melbourne 1854 Exhibition Prize Trial Strike in White Metal
Mint: Royal Mint London
Other Details: A uniface white metal trial for the prize medal (64 mm diameter) awarded at the Melbourne 1854 Exhibition. It features a view by J.S. Wyon, whose name appears at the top right of the exergue, of the specially built exhibition building as it would have been seen from the Flagstaff Gardens. The Exhibition opened on 17 December 1854 and ran for 30 days. Around 40,000 people attended - half of Melbourne's population. The exhibition building, at the site of the later Royal Mint in William Street, was based on the design of the Crystal Palace in London, which had hosted the Great Exhibition only three years earlier, in 1851. Melbourne's exhibition building had 200 ornamental windows and was lit by 306 gaslights. The exhibition included a modest 428 exhibits, mainly local industrial and agricultural products. Some of these exhibits went to Paris for the 1855 Exhibition. - Description:
- A uniface white metal trial for the prize medal (64 mm diameter) awarded at the Melbourne 1854 Exhibition. It features a view by J.S. Wyon, whose name appears at the top right of the exergue, of the specially built exhibition building as it would have been seen from the Flagstaff Gardens.
- Acquisition Information:
- Transfer from National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), 1976
| Discipline: | Numismatics |
| Dimensions: | 63 mm (Diameter) |
| Dimension Comment: | Weight > 100 g |
More information
| Tagged with: | exhibitions |
| Themes this item is part of: | Public Life & Institutions Collection, J.S. & A.B. Wyon, Engravers, London, England, Royal Mint, London, Royal Mint, Tower Hill, 1809-1975, Early History of London Mints, to 1300, The Royal Mint |
| Primary Classification: | MEDALS |
| Secondary Classification: | Civil |
| Tertiary Classification: | melbourne exhibition 1854 |
| Series: | Australian Exhibition Prize Medals |
| DateEra: | 1854 AD |
| Obverse Description: | At centre, a view of the specially built exhibition building by J.S. Wyon, whose name appears at the top right of the exergue, as it would have been seen from the Flagstaff Gardens; above, MELBOURNE EXHIBITION; in exergue: VICTORIA / 1854 and in small letters, J.S.WYON SC. |
| Reverse Description: | Plain |
| Edge Description: | Plain |
| Inscriptions: | Edge: Plain Obverse: MELBOURNE EXHIBITION above the Exhibition building, in exergue: VICTORIA / 1854 J.S.WYON SC. Reverse: Plain |
| Material: | White metal |
| Issued By: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1854 |
| Mint: | Royal Mint, London |
| Artist: | Joseph Wyon, London, England, Great Britain, 1854 |
| References: | Car 1854/2 but in white metal and obverse only |
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