Coins and Historical Medals

International Exhibition, South Kensington, 1862, Prize Medal, a copper award by L.C. Wyon [after D. Maclise], Britannia surrounded by symbolic figures, rev. legend in wreath, edge named (J. Gowans, Class I), 77mm (Allen SK-A001; BHM 2747; E 1553). Good very fine; with loop and ring for supension £80-£100

J. Gowans, Paddington; awarded for Galvanic Blasting to Quarries