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Two medals in gilded copper on pewter.
Attributed to PB Grimaud and Chartier on the edge:
These two single-sided medals go together, they are the obverse and the reverse.
Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, prize medal
Minted in 1888.
Beautiful volumes.
Usual wear, small impacts, scratches and minimal deformation, deformation on the reverse side, on the right.
Medium : gilded copper & tin.
Registration : .(Face with Queen Victoria) struck in reverse around edge: CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION MELBOURNE
. struck in obverse .: ARTIBUS DIGNIS HONOR INSIGNIS
. struck in obverse around lower edge: MELBOURNE MINT MDCCCLXXXVII