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Eugene von Guerard Collection
Image: NU 2458, Coin, Ancient Greek States, reverse
Source: Museum Victoria
Eugene von Guerard (1811-1901) was born in Vienna and migrated to Victoria in 1852, where he remained for the next 30 years. Trained as an artist, he developed an interest in coin collecting as a young man in Vienna and in Italy. While a practising artist and curator at the National Gallery of Victoria, he maintained this interest and developed a collection of some 4,000 coins, carefully listed and described in a three-volume catalogue, organised by country and date.
The von Guerard coin collection was purchased by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1880, thereby forming the basis of the state numismatic collection. The collection, together with von Guerard's handwritten catalogue was transferred in 1976 to the Science Museum of Victoria (a predecessor to Museum Victoria).
The collection comprises approximately 4,000 coins and medals, with strengths in coins from ancient Greece and Rome, Britain and Germany, up to the 1870s. Von Guerard collected on his travels in Europe, from dealers and contacts in Europe and from other Australian collectors.
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Token - Halfpenny, A.G. Hodgson, Outfitter & Tailor, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1860
Copper Halfpenny Token, minted by W.J. Taylor, London. Issued by A.G. Hodgson, Outfitter & Tailor, Melbourne, 1860. Alfred Hodgson came to Melbourne in 1853. He established a drapers, t ...
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Token - 1 Penny, A.G. Hodgson, Outfitter & Tailor, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1860
Copper One Penny Token, minted by W.J. Taylor, London. Issued by A.G. Hodgson, Outfitter & Tailor, Melbourne, 1860. Alfred Hodgson came to Melbourne in 1853. He established a drapers, t ...
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Token - Halfpenny, Robert Hyde & Co, Marine Store, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1857
Copper Halfpenny Token, minted by Heaton & Sons of Birmingham, circa 1857. Issued by Robert Hyde & Co, Marine Store, Melbourne. Hyde's Marine Store was listed in a Melbourne directory f ...
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Token - 1 Penny, Robert Hyde & Co, Marine Store, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1861
Copper one Penny Token, minted by Heaton & Sons of Birmingham, circa 1861. Issued by Robert Hyde & Co, Marine Store, Melbourne. Hyde's Marine Store was listed in a Melbourne directory f ...
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Token - 1 Penny, Hide & De Carle, Grocers & Wine Merchants, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ...
Copper one Penny Token, minted by Heaton & Sons, 1858. Issued by Hide & De Carle, Grocers & Wine Merchants, Melbourne, 1858. Thomas Hide and Edward De Carle formed a partnership in 18 ...
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Token - Halfpenny, Hide & De Carle, Grocers & Wine Merchants, Melbourne, Victoria, Austral ...
Copper Halfpenny Token, minted by Heaton & Sons, 1857. Issued by Hide & De Carle, Grocers & Wine Merchants, Melbourne, 1857. Thomas Hide and Edward De Carle formed a partnership in 18 ...
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Token - 1 Penny, W.D. Wood, Montpellier Retreat Inn, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 1855
Australia Tasmania Hobart W.D. Wood Token Penny 1855 Mint: Uncertain British Standard References: Andrews 640 = Heyde 278 Other Details: W.D. Wood ran the Montpellier Retreat Inn in Ho ...
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Token - 1 Penny, T. Warburton, Iron & Zinc Spouting Works, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ...
Australia Victoria Melbourne T. Warburton Token Penny, 1862 (AD) Mint: Thomas Stokes Standard References: Andrews 594 = Heyde 260/1 = Sharples V.178 Other Details: Die combination C / ...
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Token - 1 Penny, Edward De Carle & Co, Auctioneers, &c., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1 ...
Copper One Penny Token, minted by Heaton & Sons, Birmingham. Issued by E. De Carle & Co, Grocers & Spirit Merchant, Melbourne, in 1855. De Carle arrived in Australia in 1849. Over the f ...
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