Coins and Historical Medals

International Exhibition of all Fine Arts Industries and Inventions, London, 1873, a plated white metal medal by G.T. Morgan, draped bust of Prince of Wales left, rev. façade of buildings, named (Sir James McCulloch for Services), 70mm (BHM 2964; Taylor 180a; E 1622). Extremely fine £50-£70

Sir James McCulloch, KCMG (1819-93), b Glasgow; spent much of his life as a businessman and politician in Australia. He served four terms as Premier of Victoria between June 1863 and May 1877. Between 1872 and 1874 he returned to Britain where his commercial and political experience would doubtless have proved invaluable to the organisers of the exhibition